it's a sad time. it's our last weekend here in Barcelona, and I'm really terrible at updating the blog. I remember at the beginning I was so excited to have a blog and I updated it every single day. Remember those days?
Well, Sam came and went. He arrived here late Thursday night on the 14th and left early this past Tuesday morning. Becca and I picked him up at Estacio Nord bus station and took him to his hostel, which was pretty much the nicest hostel I've seen since I've been in Europe. It looked more like a little house than a dorm, like the ones Becca and I have stayed in. It had it's own private terrace and a big kitchen you could use until 11pm, and free internet in the lobby. Pretty nice for a hostel. I think he had a good time here. We took him out to the Black Sheep, he went to Sitges with some friends from ISA (Becca & I didn't make it because we stayed out until 7:30am the night before), and he got to go see some of the sights while we were in school. He also got to come over one night for dinner and meet our host family. Papa Juan was ecstatic to have a boy in the house. I asked him and he was like, YES!! I have two daughters, and there are always two girls staying here (exchange students) and I prefer to talk with a boy sometimes! It was funny. They seemed to really like Sam. Papa even called Cristina's boyfriend the taxi driver to pick him up at 4am and take him to the airport Tuesday morning. I wonder if he would have done that for us?
We've made a lot of new foreign friends since I wrote last. Last week I met two boys from Switzerland named Diego and Dani who were vacationing here. We met them on Weds night and went out with them every night until they left on Saturday. Now we talk on Facebook and have a place to stay if we ever visit Switzerland. I also have been hanging out with Alejandro, I mentioned him earlier. He is from a place called Sant Cugat about half an hour by train outside of Barcelona. On Wednesday he came to visit us and took us to a place called Laberinto de Horta, a big labyrinth with an awesome view and a big pond with fish and turtles. It was so pretty! We got lost in the maze for a while and took a lot of pictures as usual. after that we met up with Gabby and Radhee, two girls from school and all ate dinner at a kebab place. We've eaten kebab a few times here, with the giant towers of chicken and lamb that they shave off and put veggies and yogurt sauce all over....it's delicious. I wish we had more of that in the US. I have to say though I really miss Madam Mam's and can't wait to eat some chicken pad thai when I get home. After we went to the labyrinth, the two girls went home to get ready and go out to a discoteca, Becca went home and went to bed, and Alejandro and I went to Montjuic. I hadn't been yet and it was so amazing! We climbed up all these stairs and could see out over the whole city. I could see the Sagrada Familia and the shore of the ocean and way up in the mountains, this place called Tibidabo which apparently is a big Spanish theme park. Anyway we got to talk for a while and I helped him with some English and he helped me with my Spanish. I'm glad I have a Spanish friend to help me with my language skills so I can keep practicing when I get home. He has a really hard time differentiating between "tell" and "say", like, he always says "she said me" when he means "she told me" but he is getting much better and I think it's because he has a great teacher :).
I'll try to write one more time before I come home. I'm sooo excited to be in America with my friends and my family!!!
LKP
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