Barcelona

Hello, all. So this weekend was Barcelona, Spain, and it was a great trip!  Thursday night we went to Osteria Di Anima, affectionately known as "pear pasta place" to us here at the John Felice Rome Center, with my friend Laura's parents and turned in early, which was fun and delicious, then we woke up Friday morning at 5:30 to get our car to the airport and be on our way. We landed in Barcelona around 10 and got to the hostel around 11:30 to find out that we had until 2 until we could put our things in the room. We got some tapas and sangria and then walked to the beach, and then went to Sagrada Familia, which is a church designed by Gaudi which is still under construction, but it was by far the coolest church I've ever seen. Look it up. Then we went back to the hostel and got ready, got some falafel for dinner and made our way to a really cool bar based on a weird stock market sort of system. Prices varied based on how many people bought the drink. So if a lot of people were buying Guinness, the price of Guinness would go up, and the price of Heineken would go down. Really cool place. After that we went back for the night, woke up early and went to an open-air food market and got some lunch. Then we rented some bikes and rode to the top of a huge mountain/hill thing where Gaudi's Park Guell, which is a huge park with incredible views of the city and the coast. We hung out there for a while then rode back to the shore and hung out there for a bit, then went back to the hostel and got ready and went out for falafel and sangria again, then went to an Irish pub to watch the Barcelona football game. It was a good time. We just wandered around on Sunday until our flight, and I am officially tired. I have a huge Italian test tomorrow, so wish me luck. Busy week!  Talent show, end of the semester banquet, calcio (soccer) finals, and last week of classes. Should be interesting. I'll write sometime later this week. Have a good one, all.