(My 3rd week)
By this time, I was feeling very adjusted to living in Spain, had gotten to know the metro and bus routes better, and was feeling a lot better about speaking Spanish, after having some validation from Spanish class. I also finally started taking the night bus instead of taxi-ing home. That’s one thing I LOVE about Barcelona—it’s public transportation. Not only does it have an excellent metro system, but a really good bus system as well, AND buses that run all night! My first week here I was going out late at night and since the metro closes at midnight on weekdays, I taxied home about 3 times. Way too expensive. But finally I got comfortable enough with the city to try out the night bus and I found one that drops me off one block from my homestay! Wonderful. They should have night buses everywhere.
After work this week I went to SalaMontjuic (outdoor movie night at Montjuic), the beach at Poblenou, near my homestay and got asian food!!! There’s a chain of asian restaurants in Barcelona called Wok to Walk. What does that even mean and why it’s not “walk to wok,” I have no idea. Almost every asian restaurant I’ve seen in Spain has the word “wok” in it. Strange. Anyway it was amazingggg. Mu-Ping and I were in heaven. I miss my veggies!! It’s really been a struggle here to maintain a balanced diet since the food they have consists mostly of seafood and oil. Lots and lots of oil. Oh and bread. Lots and lots of bread. Baguettes to be more specific. So that night at wok to walk, Mu-Ping and I “splurged” on champinones (mushrooms), broccoli, bok choi, cebollas (onions), etc. And I got BROWN RICE. This made my day. Possibly my week.
Miércoles.
Wednesday was...an interesting day. A bunch of people from the program got together to have dinner at a place called the "Gran Foc" for Eric because it was his last day. Their website is www.focyou.com. ha. Then later a bunch of us went to a club called Opium to see Armin van Buuren! I had a lot of fun that night but long story short and minus the details: Andrew and I got kicked out of the club, later had to struggle to re-enter... aand at the end of the night, my purse was stolen. I won't go into the details but I'm fine and over it now. It was crappy though since my phone, camera, ipod, keys, metro pass!, and debit card were all in there. Not to mention my actual purse which I liked. Oh, and my favorite sandals which I was carrying in my purse that night since I was wearing my heels. Anyway, I've recovered. I've since bought a new phone, camera, purse, sandals, had my keys replaced and new debit card sent to my aunt's house in England where I'll soon be arriving! Oh well, material things aren't that important. Life goes on.
The next day, Thursday was spent recovering from losing my main possessions, getting a new phone, etc. And then Friday Donny, Robert, Andrew, MP, and I left for Valencia. I think we were all a little bit disappointed.. It's a pretty big city that's difficult to navigate. We did really like the Old Town and of course the giant museum of sciences and aquarium! Sadly I have no pictures of Valencia (or of this entire week) since I hadn't bought a new camera yet and hadn't uploaded the few photos on my camera that I took that week. Sorryyy, you can visit MP's flickr if you want to see some :)
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I took some pics from MP from our Valencia trip! Yay! Take a look:
part of old town.
me in front of the museum of sciences
andrew and me at ciento montaditos. yum :)
dang girl! way to be so positive about your stuff getting stolen. i really gotta learn how to not be as stressed. like you! =)
ReplyDeletethe night bus sounds AWESOME! i wish they had it here. i swear people would use it!