Second week flew by!

I think one of my favorite things about Spain so far is the amount of coins the EU feels necessary to have in circulation. There are 1,2,5,10,20, and 50 cent coins AND 1 and 2 dollar coins. Excessive. It's also confusing that the 50 cent pieces are bigger than the 1 dollar piece and the 5 cent one is bigger than the 10 cent one. And the 1,2, and 5 cent pieces are all copper.

Dorm life here is exactly the same as dorm life at A&M. Only, there's no air conditioning here so we have the pleasure of hearing everything that goes on outside. There's a crazy lady who sits in the benches across the street every night and chants for hours. Occationally she screams whatever it is she's saying at the top of her lungs and wakes everyone up in the wee hours of the morning. There are always drunk people being loud and singing at night. And someone is obsessed with a certain song that they like to play loudly every day. The same song. Oh, and someone LOVES Lady Gaga and insists on playing that loudly as well. So much for that whole quiet time after 10pm. As negative as all that was, I do like it here, haha. The bed is hard as a rock and I love it. There are built in shelves and there's plenty of space for all my stuff. It's so nice outside that air conditioning isn't even necessary. Where in Texas is that possible? And, let's face it, I'm sure at some point in my life, I've been the drunk person who was loud and woke people up.

Yesterday, we had a short walk because Marcel had a meeting in the early afternoon. We saw everything that was constructed for the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, like where the judges and athletes lived and some of the gardens. We ended up in the Olympic Port, which is just past the fish on the beach. In photo class, we got all the details for our projects. One is a collection of 59 pictures with a common theme and the other is expressing something that surprised us about Spain in 5 pictures. We don't have to turn them in until the first day of the fall semester, which is a relief because a lot of people thought we had to turn our final projects in while we were still here. We finished up the week at a really interesting photo exhibit called Domestic, which was all about people and their homes.

Today was uneventful. I WOULD have gotten Carson's package this morning but no one was in the office at 8:30 to accept it. (24 hour security?? liessss) So after Danielle got back from changing her train ticket, she and I made the trek to the UPS store which isn't even on my map, haha. 2 metro rides, 2 taxi rides, and 2 hours later we were still both package-less and discouraged. Getting packages in Spain is much more difficult than one would think.

Tomorrow Danielle and I are probably going to go to Sagrada Familia. A group went today but we were on a mission, haha. Sunday the plan is still to do a wine tour and watch the bullfight so hopefully that all still happens!