Thursday, May 7, 2009
some videos for your viewing pleasure
st. Jordi's day
some crazy jewlery that Dali made, imagine wearing that!
barca ties with chelsea!!!!
Monday, May 4, 2009
fun in the sun
well it probably has been the longest time inbetween when i have updated. but i guess that just means im having a ton of fun right? right! our group of friends here has started to grow slightly. now instead of just me rosario phillip justin and mario, we are joined by new people like two girls named Bia and Thais from brasil, a guy from brasil and these two guys from norway. the guys from norway are really nice but we always just happen to run into them places and then we go somewhere together. we are also occasionally joined by a girl from france and this guy from south africa. so our ameba shaped group is quite multicultural and an interesting crowd to hangout with. most people in the group speak spanish, but two or three dont so we all end up speaking english. which im sure is quite a sight to see by any by-standard. we always wonder what will happen if one night we get stopped by the la guardia (police) here. and one night it actually did happen! everyone had gone home from this bar we played pool at except phillip and Gabriel ( the guy from brasil) and the police came in and started questioning their whereabouts the night before. they said it was pretty scary but all in all they came out ok. apparently someone had called the police about a disturbance and they picked on the 6ft 3 brasillain and phillip.
shortly after that incident, the next week was spent going to the beach most of the days and playing futbol. which i have come to decide is not a sport made for the beach. every time someone passes the ball there is sand flying in the air. by the end of the game everyone looks like fried catfish and woah wait till you see what it does to your feet. the beach at barceloneta is not sandy by any means. it was created for the 1991 (wrong year maybe) olympics and its rocky dirt. everyone was bleeding afterwards. our soccer ball is really hardcore it has bite marks from this dog that stole it temporarly and about 6 peoples blood on it. yea we dont mess around.
this week right now is La Salle festival. which is probably the most looked forward to week of the whole year. it is one week of all day sporting events from volleyball to swimming, and a party on saturday night afterwards. today is volleyball, which i didnt sign up for, and tomorrow is mens soccer and a cookout. me and phillip and justin are going to be grilling out along with some other students. its going to be really great but really tiring. so im excited. the rule is if your in an activity you dont have to go to class, so i made sure i signed up for everything ;) !
last weekend was a three day weekend from labor day, and i went on a short road trip to carcasonne in france, and then after to Figueras in the north of spain. im going to put a bunch of pictures up on the next post because there are just too many cool things that i have to post. carcasonne was a lame city or a ciudad segunda but we went there to see this castle which is the oldest intact castle. its from the middle ages and is in almost perfect condicion. then Figueras which is Salvador Dali´s hometown and we went to the Dali museum there. it was also awesome.
also by the way if you are watching sports at all and you dont live in a cave. Barça beat Real Madrid 6-2 last weekend in Madrid´s stadium. it was the best event of whopping ass i have ever seen (sorry for the lang) there was a two day party afterwards and every newspaper in town has about 6 pages talking about the game.
shortly after that incident, the next week was spent going to the beach most of the days and playing futbol. which i have come to decide is not a sport made for the beach. every time someone passes the ball there is sand flying in the air. by the end of the game everyone looks like fried catfish and woah wait till you see what it does to your feet. the beach at barceloneta is not sandy by any means. it was created for the 1991 (wrong year maybe) olympics and its rocky dirt. everyone was bleeding afterwards. our soccer ball is really hardcore it has bite marks from this dog that stole it temporarly and about 6 peoples blood on it. yea we dont mess around.
this week right now is La Salle festival. which is probably the most looked forward to week of the whole year. it is one week of all day sporting events from volleyball to swimming, and a party on saturday night afterwards. today is volleyball, which i didnt sign up for, and tomorrow is mens soccer and a cookout. me and phillip and justin are going to be grilling out along with some other students. its going to be really great but really tiring. so im excited. the rule is if your in an activity you dont have to go to class, so i made sure i signed up for everything ;) !
last weekend was a three day weekend from labor day, and i went on a short road trip to carcasonne in france, and then after to Figueras in the north of spain. im going to put a bunch of pictures up on the next post because there are just too many cool things that i have to post. carcasonne was a lame city or a ciudad segunda but we went there to see this castle which is the oldest intact castle. its from the middle ages and is in almost perfect condicion. then Figueras which is Salvador Dali´s hometown and we went to the Dali museum there. it was also awesome.
also by the way if you are watching sports at all and you dont live in a cave. Barça beat Real Madrid 6-2 last weekend in Madrid´s stadium. it was the best event of whopping ass i have ever seen (sorry for the lang) there was a two day party afterwards and every newspaper in town has about 6 pages talking about the game.
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