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