We arrived at our hostel on Monday night. We stayed at the Albareda Youth Hostel, which was the nicest hostel I've stayed in yet. We were staying in a room of 4, so the first night, there were 2 boys sleeping in the room with us. When we got there, we checked out emails, because of course we were both going through withdrawl and then went to bed.
On Tuesday, I had class. Jen came with me to school and
then I sent her off to the chocolate museum, which is close by, and then we were going to have lunch together. Of course, I didn't know that the museum was closed Tuesdays, so she ended up walking around for an hour and a half, waiting for me to get out of class. We then went to lunch at a "pizzeria" nearby and had delicious asparagus soup as well as a bunch of other stuff. We fell in love with fixed menus. Then we walked down to the beach, which is when Jen decided that she really understood why I never wanted to leave. After that, we had chocolate croissants, which of course, Jen loved. We also had some cafe con leche and made up a list of observations we had made about Barcelona thus far. I have to find it though. Then I had class again, so I gave Jen directions to the Sagrada Familia. She never found it, because she got off at the wrong place, and couldn't remember the name. She figured that asking for the "casa de jesus" wouldn't be very helpful. I had a final the next day, so we picked up gyro-like things near the school and spent the night in the library so that I could study. On Wednesday, Jen went off on her own. She took the tourist bus so that she could see everything. After my class, we met back at the hostel hostel and went out to eat some more food. We went to Chupitos that night too, and had a bunch of shots I've never had before, including the pop rocks shot (you hold the shot in your mouth with poprocks and jump around) and the Chupitaz0 (Where you smoke the excess shot). It was a lot of fun, especially when we made asses of ourselves trying to get home on the bus because we couldn't figure out where and how to get on and off.
On Thursday, I had a presenation to give for my Spanish class. It was a walking tour of the different areas of Barcelona, so Jen tagged along to see some more stuff, and I did my best to translate. Then we went out to lunch and found the restaurant that is now my favorite (as well as Tata and Denise's favorite) and Jen tried Paella for the first time. It was hands down the best paella I've had in Barcelona, other than the home cooked one that my host mom made. Then I went to my other class and Jen went souvenier shopping. Afterwards, we met up to go pick up our backs at my apartment, since we had already checked out, and then headed to the airport to go to Paris.
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