I finally started doing laundry some time last week. The washing machine is small, which is unfortunate because I like to do laundry en masse, but I made it work. My apartmentmates hate drying clothes on the clotheslines off of the balcony, but I think not having a drying machine is pretty sweet. You just pin your clothes up and go about your day. Set it and forget it. No being tied down to your laundry for two and a half hours.
Luke says he saw Bob Dylan on the metro this week. I didn't believe him, but then on Wednesday I definitely saw Voldemort on the L3! So.
Luke, Lisa and I went to BB+ on Wednesday night. I love that place, and I love the old couple that runs it. They are so weirdly hip.
Thursday Luke and I went to a itty bitty bar and watched the soccer match. Barce vs. the team from Villaroel. It was a pretty good time even though my donut cost over 2 euros and the icing tasted like earwax. I am just attracted to small dark places where old men like to hang out. No big. Old men are a good time when you're watching a soccer match. Also, I had no idea how ugly Rohnaldino was! Messi is my favorite because he didn't make any mistakes.
Friday morning I went to the Barcelona Botanical Gardens on Montjuic with my Mediterranean environment class. Ughhh I can't wait to do everything on Montjuic. It's a smallish mountain with tons of museums and parks on it, and a castle-esque building at the top (I think). Actually, I think I want to go to Tibidabo Mountain more, because there's a really old amusement park near the top and another huge church/castle looking thing.
Anyway, the BCN Botanical Gardens were pretty cool -- they represent all the biomes w/ Mediterranean climates (Medit. basin, South Africa, southern California, parts of Australia, and one other place). I took lots of pictures of huge aloe plants for my nutter of a mother (love you, Mom!). AND I FINALLY SAW AN OLIVE TREE. Without olives, sadly. After the gardens we took a series of escalators (!!) down Montjuic and got to see Poble España and stuff. I spent the rest of Friday obsessing over bunnies on Las Ramblas and accompanying my apartmentmates on their search for Carnival costumes. I bought a bright yellow Zoro mask for .95 euro.
Saturday I slept late, which felt so good. Luke came over and we wandered L'Exiample (my neighborhood) for awhile looking for this bookstore where he had to buy his books for his Universitat Pompeu Fabra class. Had dinner at the old men's chess bar and then donuts from Moli Vell, a chain (but delicious) bakery on my block. Invited Lisa over for a carnival party. (My roommates took a train to Sitges for the night to get rowdy @ Carnival parties. It was so great to have the apartment to myself.) My Carnival costume consisted of my yellow mask and a moustache that I drew on with eyeliner, and my carnival party consisted of trying to convince Luke to love Modest Mouse and Lisa and I sliding on our knees down the long hallway in my apartment, Battle-Royale style. Later we decided we wanted to go to a big, fat, sloppy dance club but we got distracted by this sweet bar run by the best Polish woman. The Pole directed us to a kebab place across the street. Kebabs are not kebabs here. They're pitas. Weird. But delicious and cheap. We all got mesmerized by a televised Shakira concert at the kebab place and then decided to go home.
Pictures tomorrow or Tuesday.
Today was productive. On Friday Justin and I booked our spring break flights/trains to Paris and Amsterdam (after an arduous 3 hour Skype session), and today I took care of the hostels. Amsterdam hostels are all completely full for the weekend that we're going. Kind of a bummer because I would've really liked to stay in the Bulldog or the Flying Pig, but I'm sure it'll be perfect and fun no matter what.
SPRING BREAK PLANS!
- Saturday, March 15: Justin and I leave Barcelona @ 7:55 p.m., arrive in Paris @ 9:40 p.m.; stay at Luna Park Ho(s)tel for five nights.
- Thursday, March 20: We take the train from Paris's Gare du Nord at 3:25 p.m. and arrive in Amsterdam's Centraal Station at 7:36 p.m.; meet up with Aisling and Steev; stay at Hotel de Lataerne for three (ridiculous) nights.
- Sunday, March 23: Justin and I leave Amsterdam @ 12:15 p.m. and arrive back in Barcelona at 4 p.m.
So excited! Also so excited for Prague in a few days, although I'm positive I'm going to freeze. No matter. I know Ais is really prepared for the cold weather and will have plenty of scarves and mittens to lend me. Also, I plan on drinking a lot of the hot spiced wine drink that they sell on the streets! I hope to feel a little bit rich in Prague because it'll at the very least be somewhat less costly than the INSANE city of Barcelona. I can't wait. I am so nervous about going to a country where I don't know the language. I'm just sure something silly is going to happen on the cab from the airport to Aisling and Roxana's dorm. Oh, well. All in the spirit of euroadventure.
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