mucho espanol
07.09.2011 - 07.09.2011
So today we went for a bus tour with the whole group. I overslept, because my alarm didn't go off and showed up a half an hour late. It was fine though, because a bunch of other people did that also. We toured the city and it is huge! We went up to the olympic park, Sagrada Familia, etc. We weren't able to get out and walk, but I have four months to do that. We then went out for lunch with our GAs. I got gazpacho, then some chicken dish (which I didn't like) and then a pineapple with chocolate dessert. After that I wondered around with my two friends and we bought new spanish phones! They are the old flip phones that I thought were cool when I was in seventh grade. Not cool now, but so much cheaper than using my other phone. The only problem is now I can't figure out how to use it because it is all in spanish, awesome. We then went to El Corte Ingles, which is a HUGE store that sells pretty much everything. Clothes, furniture, electronics, shampoo. The trip wouldn't be complete without a stop for gelato! I got bon bon y cookies. It wasn't my favorite, but still, I was eating gelato in Spain. Then the tricky part came, I was to get home to my residencia all by my self on the metro. So I walk in, feeling all cool thinking that it will be a piece of cake. Who knew that in Barcelona, there is train that is red and a metro that is red. Guess which one I went into, yep the train. So I kept looking and couldn't find which track to be on, so I wonder up to the police man standing there and in my broken spanish ask him where "marina" is. He responds, in spanish or catalan, yo no se, that I have to take the metro. In my head, yes I realize that, hence why I am here trying to get on the metro. I wander around more and then decide that I will walk outside and find another metro stop. Well, I cant get out because my card for the metro doesn't work in the train station. So I wonder around more loooking like a freak, trying to figure out the way out. Finally, I find a group of girl who are having the same problem, sneakily follow behind them and find out I have to go to the information desk to get out. Finally I get out, find the metro, and like a champ, find my way back to the residencia. I now have to find some way to make dinner, which means going to a grocery store, which means probably getting lost. Here's to being abroad!
ps. speaking here in spanish is very hard! trying to get the phone, getting back to my residencia, or just interacting with people es muy dificil!
Posted by kerryeaton 07.09.2011 09:55 Archived in Spain
