hi!

well lemme see..
Monday: nothing that interesting. went to the bank and deposited some travelers checks. went to class and then went to this shop and we made dinner.

Tuesday: LONG DAY OF CLASS! booo and we were so tired that night that we just fell asleep almost immediately of coming home :(

Wednesday: the maids woke us up VERY early so we had to clean, shower, do our hair in a matter of 20 minutes... then it was class time. then we came home and i got a bit to eat and then went to soccer practice. i met one of the girls who is on the team named Mariona at a metro stop and she picked me up and we went to practice on Montjuic... and if you dont know what that is. its where the Olympic Games in '92 were held!!!! and oh my word. we were on top of a huge mountain right next to the Olympic stadium and it was so so awesome. you could see forever! we did a ton of running and scrimmaged and i was happy that i actually played pretty well that night. then i came home and it was like 1130 and didnt really feel like going out.

Thursday: again my LONG DAY! 2 hours of Art then 4 hours of SPANISH! yikes! here a detailed account of yesterday (it's fresh on my mind!!)
so i woke up and then i rode the metro and was real tired and then i go to school and my art class... wasnt super interesting today. the thing is we are talking alot about architecture and like mini statues... i want to look at some dang PAINTINGS or drawings or something like that! so did that. was pretty bored most of the time :/ but everyone has to do a presentation this semester and me and my partners is next tues so we gotta figure out all that stuff... im just happy to be getting it over with!
then it was lunch and i had a delicious sandwhich apple my banana was nastay and a mandarine! so then i went to 4 hrs of spanish. it was good today, my teacher has been making it fun so thats always nice. there are jut a couple of kids in there that just dont pay attention and thats annoying... im becoming really good friends with das germans... they funny and nice and not so 'american' lol so thennnn we wwent on the metro and i was going to go shopping for this jacket real quick. so kris went home and i found it and it was 20 euros and its so awesome an di LOVE it!! then omg i dont know if you ever saw the pictures of the soccer field like right next to our house, (ive posed infront of the field a couple of times) but today they were filming a movie there and there were all these christmas lights and stuff and it was so crazy! i ran to the market real quick and grabbed some bread, water, and mandarines.
come back. chill for a moment... and then take a shower and get ready! lets see oh and i looked super cute ps. i wore black leggings, my cute new boots, and my yellow barca jersey with the barca scarf and the new jacket! it was perfectly cute :) we get to the game and you can feel the excitment! its so awesome. If you didn't know, FC Barcelona was playing the OTHER team in Barcelona, Espanyol... so it was awesome and it's called a City Derby (prounounced dArby though hahah and obviously both these teams are huge rivals!!) we get there and its kris lali and the gma... the stadium is hugely filled! like last night there were 47000 and this time it was like 80000 and it was such a fun game! we got these barca and catalonia plastic flags! and the game was so intense!
THEN the game was awesome. barely won 3-2. then afterwards. we plan on going to Las Ramblas to go to a bar or something. we have to let 3 metros pass us before we can get on one bc they are so packed... then we go there and its not too bad. we go to a place called My Bar and then my german friend calls me and theyre all on Las Ramblas so i tell them to come hang with us. we only stay there for a little while and then go to this other bar called La Ovella Negra or black sheep... and its huge and international and its pretty cool i guess no music but we stayed there till 2. kris made friends with some spainards who seemed pretty nice! and then the bar is baout to close so we leave and go to this other club where we can get in free.. me and this kid Konstantin become like BFF and his favorite band is Kings of Leon also and so that was really crazy!! and we go to this club for free but the guys have to pay 12 euros but they get 2 free drinks so im not really sure how it worked haha and its a very european club with house techno music and stuff it was alot of fun!! we stayed there for a while and then we're pretty tired and then came home around 430!!!

WHEWWW!!!
that was alot! i hope you are not too overwhelmed! Last night was definitly are most exciting night so dont worry that i didn't post earlier in the week because there really wasn't that much to say!
i love you all and hopefully i will go on an adventure today!
LOVE LOVE

WOAH!

hello ladies and gents!
well yesterday was quite an adventure! i woke up and went walking around the city for about 3 hours. it was great just thinking and walking and taking everything in. i went through the central park, by the coast, near Cristoph Colom, and walked all the way up Las Rambles! it was neat going to all the shops and stuff.
i really like Las Rambles because there are all the stands, flower and animal shops and artists! yes, it's very touristy but i enjoy walking along it!

later we went to ANOTHER FC BARCELONA GAME!!!!!! and boy was it amazing! there was alot more passion in the air. Many more chants and yells and whatnot. we ended up winning 4-1 so that was incredible!!!

afterwards, we went home real quick (1am........) and changed clothes and met up with the girls on my soccer team! They are SO SO SO nice! I am on a new team now, but can't remember the name of it... but i will let you know soon! we went to 3 different clubs and were dancing and it was so great! this one girl said i have to teach her english and she will teach me spanish, so i said Si! obviously :) then we went took a taxi to another club called Jambori and kristin and i danced by ourselves for over an hour.. it was awesome the music was great and so much fun...
we got home past 5 and passed out immediately!!

it's 2:46 pm for us right now and someone (kristin haha) is still asleep!

i love you all so much and cant wait to see your smiling faces again!

oh and if you want to write me, feel free to do it!
LOVE!

no school!

whewwwwwwww!!
that was one hard week! but guess waht! no school EVER on fridays! so that's nice! today we woke up and we were going to go to the Sagrada Familia with our friend Phil... but we got there and the sky was all cloudy which would have made our pictures not very good, so we decided to just wait and go a different day! we went down to the coast becasue we hadn't been there and since today was kinda hot... we wanted to go to the beach!!
and boy was it beautiful!! we walked around aimlessly for a very long time just on the docks and it was so fun. ate at this litttle italian place and it was great! then we walked around some more and found this little grove that had like 10 mandarine trees! so obviously i picked one but i haven't eaten it yet, so i hope its delicious!
it was such a fun day, just walking around, with no where in particular to go to. these types of days are my favorite! i love finding new things and experiencing new things as well.

tomorrow will be eventful too! dont you worry.
till then...

mmmm

well kristin and i just got home from a long ole day at school!!
i had to leave extra early to go to the Sant Pau campus in order to get my ID made. i arrive at Sant Pau this morning at 9:45 a.m. thinking it is going to take 20 min to do. all i do is sit there and they take a picture and voila! i am done. so i was happy that i had a very long time to make it over to the Sarria campus. i go to my Spanish Art class this morning and it was so great. we learned about Pre Historic cave paintings and stuff and it was actually way more interesting than it sounds! problem was, we watched a movie for 45 min and i was quite tired so my eyes were closing a bit :(
after i went to the cafeteria, because we have an hour for the next class and thats where everyone meets. it is always nice to just hang out and talk with evryone. i think we are going to Grenada next weekend which will be very exciting. Espanol for 4 hours was next which we always dread, but once we get in there its never as bad as you think it will be. i say 'we' because both kris and i have spanish at the same time but OBVIOUSLY not in the same class :)

now we are tiredddd. just ate some pan y tomate and it was delish! time to watch last night's episode of lost! hooray!
much love yall

6 days, AH!!!

well I ahven't posted since last thursday but honestly not a ton of huge interesting things have happened!
Friday: hung out with Carlos. walked around and then came home. awesome eh?

Saturday: i got up early, walked around alot. went to this really cool park near us, watched some little kids play soccer for a while by our house, they were SO cute :)
and then...
DUN DUN DUN!!!! we went to our first FC BARCELONA GAME!!!!!!!!! and oh my it was beyond amazing. the stadium was so huge. i walked in and literally taken aback by the sheer magnitude of the place. you could feel the passion and excitment. i was shaking because i was so ready and that it was FINALLY happening! they won the game 5-0 and it was so awesome. i had brought my mega-camera lens so i got some pretty decent pics! that night we hung out with these Germans who are pretty cool

Sunday: i woke up early and went to Alex's soccer game. it was FREEZING but once the sun came out it was so much better. i was oging to take pictures but had forgotten to charge my camera from the night before :/ then i went to church which was a really cool church. it was kind of hard to understand because it was in Catalan not spanish, but i knew when they did the Our Father as well as peace be with you's hahah came home that next day. got everything ready for SCHOOL BAH!

Monday:we first tried to get our student metro tickets but had to fill out with paper and get something from our university. then we went to this massive mega store calleld El Corte Ingles. imagine the NYC Macy's but 20x bigger... yah its that huge! we got SPIRALS and PENS! you know i'm all about some good school supplies :) then we went to one of our universities and didnt' get the paper filled out bc they were so busy. ate lunch which was 2 euros and then went to the OTHER campus which is about 40 min away by metro. we got there an hour before my class. searched ALL around this area. asked about 20 people if they knew where it was and they said it didnt exist so that was helpful... i started freakin out because i was already late and we couldnt find it. so we hop in a taxi and we are like please take us to this place FAST... and guess what. he makes a LEFT turn and we are there. the cab cost was 2.05 euros and taxis have a 2 euros flat rate. so our trip was .05... bahaha so that was a good story. we went to class. it was International Marketing for me and it doesn't seem that hard.. i have it again in acouple of hours!! we came home... made SPAGHETTI!!! which was oh so delicious!

Tuesday: went to class at 11... luckily i found it easily this time :) it seems like an awesome class. it's called Spanish Art and Cultural History. We go to Musems all the time, learn to analyze art in depth, and have a final art project we have to make. So needless to say, it's going to be really great. Then i tried to go to our Programs office in between classes, ended up getting lost was freaking out because i thought i was going to be late to a class AGAIN but got there on time. then i had Spanish for 4 hours... yup 4 hours... it was intense! well my class wasn't... we did letters, and numbers hahah but hoepfully it'll get harder :) and it was nice because he gave us breaks every hour so i guess that was good! Class was over at 5:30 we didn't get home until 615. I had soccer at 7:30 so i had to rush to get ready and leave. plus grab some food! i go to soccer... wait in the cold for like 30 min because practice was running WAYYY late. then i play and the girls aren't as good as the other team i was on so that kinda stinks. so whatever... i am going to give it another shot on thursday so we'lllllllllllll see!

oh my that was alot!
we were thinking about going to valencia this weekend... but we ahvne't been too organized with it, plus we're going to Grenada i think next weekend! so cool!
i love you all and will be better with posting everday! who knows maybe you'll get 2 in a day today!
lots of love.

oh ps. i dyed my hair dark brown thursday night if you didn't notice!!!!!

happy day!

so today was awesome because kristin and i were able to go to Park Güell which was absolutely beautiful! we spent a long time there taking picutres, but i know both of us wish we would have been able to spend more time there!
after we went to this little cafe was delicious and CHEAP! which is always a plus :) we came back and kristin took a nap while i went adventuring around our home, which turned out to be really fun.

i still am shocked that i am going to be spending 4 more months in this amazing city. i'm always flabbergasted by all the beauty around me and i am just so blessed and am not going to take one thing for granted.

all my love!

all moved it!

well since the last post, we stayed in this awesome hotel, Hotel Husa Barcelona, for 2 night and have finally moved into our Residencia! It's so nice to be finally out of suitcases and living in a real place! We've visited the Sagrada Familia, seen our Uni, been on Las Ramblas, shopped at a market, and I even asked for directions in SPANISH!!

so alot has gone on in a week! it is crazy how fast time flies! we were going to try to go visit Madrid this weekend... but I think we are going to stay here and really immerse ourselves in Barcelona. Everyone has been very friendly and helpful, plus the Cebrian's are a gift from God!!! Oh I also figured out which church we are going to go to and the times that it begins! (though there were 5 homeless people lurking at the door...)

We are about to go exploring so it should be awesome.
We love yall so much!
t'estimo

we. are. here!!!!!!!!

WELL... WE ARE HERE!!!!!!! HOORAH!
right now we are both sitting in Sant Just which is not exactly Barcelona, but right outside the city! Kristin has been here for a while and i got here a couple of days ago.... We've been in Rupia this whole time which is little village about an hour from here!! it was awesome. we have been staying with the Cebrians and all of their family!! There were 17 of us at one point! all eating around the table! Yesterday was el dia de los reyes! which is the day the 3 kings came, and is liek their christmas... you put one shoe out in the rooma nd then the 3 kings come to visit!!!! its awesome and we got some cool stuff for our room like towels, socks, candles, blankets, candy, and shoe divider and this nativity statue. it was so sweet of them but way to much stuff!! we had gifts for them so it was perfect! we also watched mama mia! and a barca game!!

soccer starts tonight!! hooray!

i only got a few pics up ill try to add more soon!!
love to everyone!

ALMOST!!!

well here we go!
i leave in 2.5 hours and am SO ready to be there!
kristin is already there safe and sound and has fallen in love with the city already. i can't wait to see her and just finally be in spain!

i love you ALL and can't wait to see you after this fabulous journey