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So I haven't written in a few days, but I have some updates...

Today was my first day of actual classes. I had 2 other than my Spanish class: Society and Communication in Spain (in Spanish) and Barcelona: The City and its History (in English). I was planning on switching to the Spanish version of the history class, but it seems really interesting, and I just can't see how I would get as much out of the Spanish version since it would be simplified to accomodate all the American students. Therefore, I think I'm gonna stay in it. There are a bunch of field trips and a lot of reading, but it seems like good stuff. For extra credit I get to read a novel on a list and write a paper. I can't complain. The Communications class also sounds pretty fun. We get to learn about propoganda, the media, and forms of communication in Spain. We get to go to the radio station and watch tv and stuff like that. I have one more tomorrow.

So Thursday night we went to Chupitos, which is the shots bar, again. That was a lot of fun, because we got there early enough that we could still move and hear ourselves talk. We did a bunch of shots: Diablo (on fire, and sipped through a straw), Green Giant (another fire straw one) and the Bob Marley (green, red and yellow in layers and tasted like candy). We also had another liter of some mixed drink. We were enjoying ourselves quite a bit by the time we left. We then trecked over to Sutton, which is a club that wasn't too far. It was about a 15 minute walk. The party was for Bread and Butter, which was fashion week this year in Barcelona. We would've loved to go to the shows, but you have to be invited. The club was really nice but the music was all house, and not very good house music, so we left after about an hour. We took taxis home and ended the night pretty early, around 3am.

On Friday night, we opted to stay in because we were all tired from the night before and everyone was still kind of sick.

On Saturday during the day, we did the tourist thing. We went to Park Güell, which is a park that was designed by Gaudi during his life. His original intention was to build a bunch of houses and make it kind of a small city in itself. He ended up being the only one to live there, but built some really cool structures in the process. We took tons of pictures and just wandered for a while. Getting there was quite interesting. We got off at the nearest metro stop, which wasn't exactly close and then pretty much trecked up a mountain to get there. The street was so steep that there was actually an escalator for a part of it. Of course when we got to the top of the mountain to the escalator, that side of the park was closed off and we had to walk about half a mile to get to the other entrance. It made for some good pictures though.

After the park, we went to Montjuïc which is where the Olympics took place. We climbed up another mountain and took a bunch of escalators. The view was amazing. We took tons of pictures, saw the Art Museum (but we didn't actually go in) and where the Olympic ring was. We looked for the Olympic pool but couldn't find it, so we figured we'd leave it for another day.

By the time we got home, I had injured my foot from walking in flats for 8 hours. I guess it was the lack of support, but it feels like a pulled a muscle in my foot, and it hurts a lot to walk.

We decided to go out for Sangria, because we hadn't had any since we had been in Spain. I found a place that was supposedly very popular among erasmus (international) students and backpackers, so we decided to check it out. It was really cool. It pretty much looked like a really big basement and had longs of picnic benches and pool tables and you just sat down with your pitcher of beer or sangria and made friends. We met this couple from England who was on vacation for the week. The husband was apparently in fashion, although we didn't find out exactly how, and were here for Bread and Butter. They were really nice.

Then we decided to go to a club we had gotten free passes for when walking around. That was around 1:30, because the pass was only good until 2. The pass said there was salsa and Spanish music, so we were intrigued. When we got there though, it was house music. It was pretty good, but we got bored after a while, and decided to leave around 3. However, when we were leaving, we saw a bunch of people in a corner and we decided to check it out. It turned out to be stairs to a downstairs floor with Spanish music. We were so excited that we couldn't help but go down and check it out. We ended up staying until 5 and the party was still going when we left. We also made friends, and some guy was trying to hook me up with his friend.

And that's all for now...