Hola todos!
Many of you have probably heard the story about how when I went to Disneyworld 6 years ago, I spent one of the nights "hugging the toilet" due to some bad fish and chips. And then there was this past December's trip to Universal, where I found myself in the same position on the first night of our trip due to an incredibly large burger. Well, apparently, Barcelona has been added to the list of destinations that make me puke, because I spent all yesterday in the bathroom with a 24-hour stomach bug (aka the worst 24 hours of my life).
I am feeling much better today, thank goodness. I'm beginning to think that my stomach is not a fan of traveling, however. We'll see what happens when I go to Rome a week from tomorrow. Oh yeah, I'M GOING TO ROME IN A WEEK, EVERYONE! We've booked our flights but if anyone knows of relatively cheap hotels in Rome, please let me know!
In other news, I have now had all of my classes except the one I'm taking at the University of Barcelona, which starts next Tuesday. My favorite class is easily my art class...I forgot how nice just being able to sit and draw for an hour and a half was. The studio is beautiful, too, with a lot of natural light coming through wall-sized windows. It's a nice break for me.
Also interesting is my Catalan language class. Catalan is so much more different from Spanish than I thought it would be. Having a background in Spanish definitely helps with recognizing words, though. Pronunciation is a whole other story! We learned the alphabet in Catalan today, which was pretty funny. Another funny moment was when my professor told us the word for fire, which is "foc" (pronounced very much like a not-so-nice English word). When we all burst out laughing, immature college students that we are, she had no idea why and we had to explain it to her. Very amusing.
Normally we would not have Friday classes but we do tomorrow because it's the first week (this is the reason they gave us, I do not really understand it either), so my weekend will not officially begin until tomorrow afternoon. I hope to have some fun stories for you on Monday!
Adios! (or, in Catalan, Adéu!)
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