so, i rode the train back from valencia to barcelona again sunday night, and i think i got jyped, cause i looked online at the 4:00 train and it was the super cheap tourist train which is called Talgo and its 20 euros, so i was like super, so i go to the station and i guess something changed that i missed but the train that was there is euromed (doesnt that sound expensive?) and it is about 3x that and they made me buy preferente (1st class i soon found out) because the train was full, which they werent lying because the line to board it was out the door and down the sidewalk, but i get on the train and i sit down in first class, its actually nothing different than the other class, but the seats face each other with a table inbetween, and the lady in front of me was talking on her phone the first 15 mins so loud, i wanted to strangle her, they were talking on the loudspeaker telling us important train stuff and i couldnt hear it over her yapping. but it turned out i was in the wrong seat and i was two cars down in the same seat which was empty except for this old man so it worked out. but the ride was pretty nice, we got a meal and like a hot towel and everything.

so im back in barcelona, and its pretty lonley here still, i have way too much free time and all i can do i wander up and down the streets and see the sights cause i cant hangout in my tiny room that would be a prison sentance literally. so my first day of class was ok, my international business class is interesting, our teacher is irish i think, and its purley discussion socratic method stuff, he asks us a question and everyone in the class just speaks out and anwsers, i was taking notes like crazy but no one else was so im not sure what i missed about that maybe people in spain just absorb information. then i went to spanish class which is 3 hours long, and one day a month is 4 hours long. we get two breaks though but not very long. its really intensive, we arent allowed to speak english in the classroom and its the only class so far that has books. also most of the class is boys and most of them are german. but then we went to lunch in the cafeteria, which we have to pay for, i was informed that lunch at the residencia was horrible so i skipped that and got a ham and cheese. after class me and phillip wandered around downtown and ate dinner. pretty long tiring day. but im still homesick, its pretty lonley, i dont know anyone so im by myself or with phillip most of the day.

the pic is from the train window, the mediterrenan