Friday: June 7, 2013

I have to start by saying this, this blog is the most stressful thing about my trip. After wandering around for like 14 hours a day, then coming to the hotel and trying to remember what I even did that morning is so difficult. Don't get me wrong, I am more thanexcited to share this experience with ya'll, but if I sound like I'm rambling or if stuff doesn't make sense, it's because my brain is fried. LOL. Point of the story, you people better enjoy this!! Okay rewind to yesterday, Thursday. We woke up, duh, had breakfast as usual. Since we are all spending so much money, we cannot justify not waking up and eating free breakfast at our hotel everyday, and it's actually really good. We hopped on our bus and headed to the "Damm" brewery. It wasn't too far. It's the largest brewery in all of Europe and damn it was big..haha, get it? Damm! haha omg sleep deprivation. Ok. The guy gave us a brief history, etc. on the brewery, but he pretty much only spoke spanish so Hugo, our director, had to translate most of it. Did I tell you that Spain spanish is much different than Mexican spanish? Anyways he showed us some of their marketing techniques such as the commercials, and I have to admit watching them makes me want to jump on a boat, go to Ibiza and drink some beer. They released a 3 minute long commercial on you tube like 3 days ago and it already had like one million something likes. Anyways they were cool, you should google them. Ok, we took a tour of the brewery and watched how the bottles went thru the assembly line and whatnot. It was pretty cool, but they wouldn't let us take any pictures because it made the workers feel like they were "animals at the zoo." Haha I snuck a couple tho. Such a rebel! Damm produces all kinds of stuff like water, juice, beer, blah blah blah. It makes some crazy number like 300k an hour. Anyways then we got to sample them or should I say we got to drink them. We could have as many as we wanted, of all different kinds. My favorite was called "Damm Lemon 6-4" It tasted like beer lemonade. They gave us a bottle of one of their special beers to take home, I forgot the name and I'm too lazy to get up and look at what kind it was. We took the bus back to the school. Thankfully, the spectacular six didn't have class until 4 and it was only 1. We put our time to great use and cabbed over to Parc Guell. It is a must see, must do in Barcelona. It was absolutely breathtaking. The views of the city alone were enough to blow your mind. There were all of these benches that were like handcrafted out of different colored stone that lined the park. They had many vendors and I bought a bunch of souvenirs. I can't tell you what they are, because some of them might be for YOU! We went to this open area in the park and had ham and cheese croissants and sangria. That's the thing here..sangria and effing ham. Always ham. Good thing I eaat pork. Then we took a cab back to our school. Oh wait rewind on the cab ride to the park we packed like sardines in the cab, 4 in the back, one in the front. On the way back, they told us only 4 to a car, so we had to find a van. Well this asshole tried to charge us 4 euro extra because we "occupied an extra seat." No thanks buddy. We said umm absolutely not. We threw the money at him, without the extra euro, got out and shut the door. We're American, not stupid! We had class. It was good. Classes here are all so interesting so it's actually not bad to go to class. Plus, Peter, our teacher let us out early, and he accompanied us on our route home. Previously, we had taken private busses to school everyday and this is the first time we were taking the bus. So there's like a million forms of transportation here. The bus, the subway, and something else. Confusing but after day 4, we got it down..for the most part. We were all pretty hungry so we went to our rooms for like 15 minutes tto freshen up, then met in the lobby. We decided to go to dinner where Peter, our teacher, had gone the night before and said it was really good. For the first time I tried 'pan con tomate' or bread with tomato for you bad spanglishers. It's like the equavalent to brushetta in the states. It's yummy, I had it today too (Saturday  which actually I don't think I'm going to get there tonight, but I promise it will happen ;) I also had garlic shrimp (ok, but not for 12 euro, it was like 6 baby shrimp in like a boiling butter sauce), and these mild peppers kind of like shishito but I don't remember what their called (and once again I don't feel like looking at the receipt). Another thing I've been keeping receipts, etc as keepsakes in order to write better blogs. That's obviously not happening. Oops. Sorry friends =) The waiter sucked. They all suck here. Maybe I'm too critical, considering ya know, but he sucked. Tip is also included here everywhere you go, and it is very uncommon for you to leave extra. HAHAHa imagine that.