Hola a todos!
For those of you who understood the S Club 7 reference, 10 gold stars. Also, we´re solemates.
Anywayssss this weekend has been carazayyyyy. But let´s start at the very beginning (a very good place to start, if you ask me ;-) haha)
Thursday I had my first Medieval History class at UPF and it was so amazing! The teacher was so funny and spoke slowly enough so that I could understand him without being completely lost! SUCCESS! haha. Trin had a pizza party for the end of Spanish classes (YESSSSS) and then I had a lovely night in sleeping. Always good.
Fridayyyy...Oh yeah. Ok So we went with Eulaulia to see Castelles (human towers) in Plaça Sant Jaume as part of the start of Merçe (which is the huge party celebrating Barcelona...bascially a 4 day fiesta for the entire city...pretty good deal right?). The Plaza was SO SO full of people, it was a little claustrophobic. But that´s ok, the human towers were SO cool (although a bit terrifying) and we got to see a lot of catalan culture with the parade of giants and all.
Friday night I went with Laia and a bunch of kids from the Pingree exchange (YAY!) to see a concert in Plaça Espanya which was so so cool. We all met up and walked over together and had a great night dancing and hanging out despite the rain. The only downfall: going to bed at 4 and having to get up at 9 is never a good thing.
Saturday I had to drag myself out of bed at 9 to go to Sitges with the Trinity grouppp. To be honest, I was kind of dreading it at first because our schedule was so full and I was dead on my feet, but it ended up being SO SO fun. We walked around for a bit and looked at pretty houses and then...we went...to the Bacardi House.
Ok so the museum of Bacardi wasn´t the most enthralling thing in the world. BUT. At the end, they taught us how to make the original and TRUE Mojito! First they showed us how, and we were like oh cool, mojitos. THEN they started putting ingredients out in front of us and we got to make our own! Holy crap they were so good. I have tasted heaven, and it comes in the form of a true Bacardi mojito. sooo the trip was a success, to say the least haha.
No, but really, after that we walked around, had a great lunch at this pizzaria, ate way too much, saw beautiful churches and buildings, and went to the beach for a while. In all, it was a really gorgeous day.
Helena and I came back to Barcelona and went to see the Correfoc which is a tradition of Merçe when people run through the streets dressed as demons with fire because...well we don´t really know why. But everyone was dressed up with sweatshirts and scarves covering their mouths and protective eye gear and I´m standing there in a dress...sooo we got a little scared and decided to leave before we got burnt to a crisp.
Instead, we went to see OK GO! (the only american band at Merçe haha) which was really fun. I left to go meet up with Laia again and we walked back to Plaça Espanya to go to MAXIMUM, the biggest party of Merçe. And when I say biggest, I am NOT kidding. Holy crap, there were SO many people there. We tried to get in and dance, but it was literally impossible. I got pushed and pulled in so many directions, it was unbelivable. So instead of subjecting ourselves to torture, we decided it wasn´t worth it and hung out where there weren´t so many people. Again, walking back at 3 am with 5 hours of sleep under my belt was pretty tough, but it was all worth it when I fell into bed and slept until noon today (which, as you all know, is EXTREMELY strange and rare for me). And now I´m just chilling with Laia until I have to go home and do homework and go to the gym because I can´t stop eating here because the food is TOO DAMN GOOD. urgh.
Anyways, that´s my life up to date! I don´t have a list for today because I´m too tired to try to be witty, but I´ll try and do one next timeeee
Love you all!
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