It's been a long night in Barcelona...

Hey all!

Long time no blog! I know, I'm sorry!!! But I'm back, no worries.

This past weekend was so nice! Friday I had a lovely lazy night in after a stressful week, so it was nice to catch up on sleep and rest a bit!

Saturday was Monica's birthday, so Almudena and I traveled to Sitges, a beach town about a half hour away from the city, to have a nice lunch at her Dad's apartment. Javier cooks really really really well, and we had some delicious ribs with potatoes :-) plus there was a giant brownie. Really can't get any better than that.

After we got back to the city, I called Laia and met up with her around 8:30. We had a lovely dinner with her mom and sister and then we touched ourselves up so we could go out for drinks. We went to the Hotel La Florida which is up in the mountains and has the most AMAZING view of Barcelona. I couldn't take pictures because I forgot my camera and it was super dark anyways, but it was fantastic. I got to meet a bunch of Laia's friends (and reunite with some of the Pingree exchange students) and all in all just had a really nice time hanging out with a bunch of great people!

I stayed a Laia's (I have my own pull out bed there haha) and we spent Sunday watching YouTube videos of SYTYCD and Fama (Which is the spanish equivalent). So nice to just hang out :-)

After so many great meals, I had to force myself to go to the gym which I did. Unfortunately, the gym didn't want me for long, because they turned the TV's and the lights off on me a half hour before I thought it was closing...oh well haha

Since then it's been pretty routine: Class, study, class, gym, homework, bed. haha

BUT this weekend is FIESTAAAA!!! woot! And I think we're going to sitges again with Trinity, so that'll be fun too!

Anyways, that's a little bit of what's going on with me!

I'm going to start doing lists, because it seems to be the thing to do on blogs haha

Here are the 5 things (silly things haha) that I miss about the US

1. Refills. Seriously, a diet coke here is like 1,15 euros and it's TINY and they don't give free refills. So. Sad.
2. Eggs for breakfast. They apparently just don't do that here?
3. Foliage. I mean, there's some, but there's nothing like in MA or NH
4. ORBIT SWEET MINT GUM. You have no idea how terrible withdrawl from orbit is...
5. My coche. I love me some metro, but when it's raining and I have to run soaking wet through the streets, I really miss my cancerous mercedes haha

and here are 5 things I wish I could transfer to the US from Barcelona

1. The climate. Right now, it's still 70 degrees and sunny which is beautiful :-)
2. The fruit. well, send this to Trinity, at least, because good fruit doesn't exist in college.
3. Jamon serrano. Brilliant. Genius.
4. The pace of life. Everyone walks a little bit slower here. I'd like to take a look around once in a while back home...
5. Tortilla espanola. Gods gift to man kind. I'm serious people, try it.

Yes, I realize that the majority of those things are food related, but hey, I like to eat, what can I say :-)

ok, bed time for Mioooo

love you all!