We went out Tuesday night to George Payne's and then to this club called Opium. Amy and I got to George Payne's and got a drink while waiting on our friends and we made some friends from France. They were very friendly and we really liked talking to them. It's so bizarre to me how Europeans speak so many different languages. These French people were living in Barcelona and speak Spanish fluently (and obviously French) and their English was almost flawless. I was embarrassed to answer "Spanish" when they asked me what my second language was since it is so terrible right now. But I am learning... that's why I'm here!
So then we went to Opium which was hilarious. There were so many interesting people there and we learned very quickly how aggressive the boys can be. This seems to be a very touristy club and we met several other American, Irish, and Brazilian people. We finally left and took a taxi home since the metros had already shut down for the night. Speaking of Metros I'm sort of starting to figure it out...
I think what I'm having the most trouble adjusting to besides the language barrier is the big city. I've never even been to New York or anywhere like that so learning how to get around the city is so new to me. I have finally stopped trying to apologize to every person that I run in to on the streets since they certainly don't apologize to me when they do it.
Yesterday we had an orientation meeting and then Beth and I tried out the "cafeteria" on the top floor of Corte Ingles which had this amazing view of the whole city. I had some Macarrones and then we did a little bit of shopping. One thing that I can't get used to is that tit is really difficult to drink water here. I order it everywhere I go and they only give me a tiny bottle of water. I got a water bottle from a vending machine today and I was surprised when it wasn't water that I tasted...it was actually a clear gatorade type drink...they don't even have water bottles in vending machines?? The water here at the house tastes funny too so I don't really want to fill up my Nalgene with it... so I'm really hoping I can figure something else out so I don't have to keep spending 2 Euros on water bottles....yikes.
Last night, Amy and I met with our RA, Magda, who took us out for Sangria with four other girls to answer any questions that we had about Barcelona and then we headed to meet our friends at the FC Barcelona Futbol game!!! It was my favorite thing we have done so far. We of course got scarves and went into the game which started at 10:00 PM. Barcelona won 5-0 against Real Betis and Messi scored 3 of those goals- a hat trick... very impressive! We ate dinner at the game... stadium food is very different over here. I got a sandwich that was basically a baguette sliced in half with a slice of cheese and tomato remnants on the bread.... it was like they put a tomato on the sandwich and then took it off after enough of its juices had gotten on the bread. Not exactly what I would consider stadium food but I liked it! After the game we went out to George Payne's for a little bit and then headed back home to sleep a little bit.
More orientation today... woo hoo... and I got a go phone finally to use over here that looks like one that I would have had back in middle school. Then we had a scavenger hunt around Barcelona that I have to admit I wasn't too excited about but we actually saw some really interesting things... pictures...
Sorry this was so long but so much has happened in these past few days! I have lots more pictures on facebook so check those out too.
Adios!!
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