Catching up...

Ok, I know it's been a while since my last meaningful post. So here comes a big post or two spilt up to explain what's happened essentially in the past month.

Let's see, in order (which this will be split up into two posts):

(this post)
1) Travelled to Barcelona Click for Barcelona Pictures, if you haven´t seen them yet. No added or new photos since the last post of photos
2) Stayed in Sevilla for two weeks

(next post)
3) Travelled to Valencia
4) Travelled to Paris

So, a friend and I travelled to Barcelona in hopes to see arguable the best two teams play each other. Right when we got to Barcelona, we travelled to the FC Barcelona stadium, Camp Nou. Definitely amazing and so huge. The first room you go into is just a room of gold and silver from all the trophies. It´s just ridiculous and the field/stadium are huge and just as crazy. We were about to scalp some tickets, but they just didn´t seem reliable. From there, we went to get a bocadillo then back to the hostel. We had heard of this awesome light and water show. It was around the Olympic Park which was cool. Above the fountain show was this hug Palacio. No idea what it´s for but, it was a great backdrop because it was up on the hill. From the top, you get a great view of the city. Here´s a video of it.



Saturday, we went to Sagrada Familia, La Casa Pedrera, which are both designed by the architect Gaudi, and the Picasso museum. The Picasso museum was a little to modern and abstract for me but still cool. La Casa Pedrera was really cool. It was originally built as an apartment complex for wealthy family. It has "stormtroopers" at the top and is very modern and a little out there. La Sagrada Familia is amazing. It´s so ornate and looks awful from a distance but the closer you get, the better it becomes.

We decided to stay Sunday to watch El Clasico in Barcelona. We started the day at Park Güell which is set

on the side of hills and you can see the entire city. It was one of the most beautiful parks I´ve been to. From there, we just walked around the city, got lost, and enjoyed the time until the game. The game was crazy. Ended up being a 2-2 tie, but hey it was a lot of fun watching it in Barcelona. Then we had nowhere to sleep so wandered the city until our flight left at 6:30, got back to Sevilla at 8:30 then went to class. Class was definitely rough.

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For the next three weekends, I was in Sevilla which was relaxing. I got to show my friend and his friends around the city, which that was talked about in Plans Change

But, here´s the video of the procession thanks to Chris Ratsabout.



Other than that, it was relaxing being in Sevilla, experiencing Sevilla, and hanging out with friends. There´s nothing else that was really exciting during those three weeks. So, hopefully tonight before my next class I´ll get the other post written, if not, it´ll be Monday at the earliest cause I don´t have Internet access or anything useful to write papers other than at my Study Center which will be closed.

Luego,

Greg