so much..

... has happened since last (1st) update..

Life in Barcelona has been nothing short of perfect: I only have class on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and then we have the rest of the day to do whatever our heart desires.

After class, we either sight see in the city, or just go relax/nap at the beach before wandering around and finding a place for dinner.

Just to get you acclimated: we're actually studying outside of the city, roughly a 30 minute train/metro ride from the center of town (Plaza Catalunya) right at the top of Las Ramblas. It's just far enough outside of the city so that it's not a pain to travel back and forth more than 1 time in a day, but at the same time, just close enough.

My roommate, Mallory, is a Godsend! She's the kindest most optimistic person that I may have ever met, and is the perfect roomie.

Besides just Mallory (Spigel), here's a rundown of the people that consume the majority of my time:

Tara - the fashionista; Christina/Nina - the rock/the mom; Kyle - specializes in man-pris and dance moves; Kyle v2.0 - the other Kyle/the wanderer by nature; Tyler - bro sunglasses; Eric - looks like turtle; Scott - golf balls and patches.

We (6 of us) just got back from Rome a few hours ago.. while three (Nina, Scott, and Eric) went to Andorra for the weekend instead.



(Left to Right: Me, Kyle, Tara, Tyler, Mallory, and Kyle v2.0 at the Vatican)

our pictures from the weekend are here and here.

We had a blasty to say the least, and made plenty of memories.. mostly involving Kyle and Tyler talking about their new souvenir t-shirts about smashing the people and named themselves the "brothers' gollum". (strange kids...)


When we got back from Rome, we walked to this little vegetarian diner called "Organic" with the most incredible salad bar. I got spicy curry pizza (incredible) and between all of us we ordered everything on the menu.

Did homework for a little while, and uploaded pictures from the weekend... tomorrow afternoon we're doing a fat tire bike tour of Barcelona.. can't wait!

I PROMISE more frequent posting in the future..