exploring part 2

We started out Saturday with a nice cappuccino and walked until we found the arc de triomf. We stumbled upon a park and then a fountain with shiny gold horses on top and then a wooly mammoth and then a lake with small boats and a boy chasing an escaped peacock and a tree stump with mittens on it and an abandoned building that used to contain a botanical garden of tropical plants and in the end rested our feet

Exploring

It has been a busy week I don't even know what happened to the time. Good thing I took pictures!

I met up with Caitlin, a friend from San Diego, for tea, she showed the cutest and probably the coziest spot to drink tea in the city. The menu of teas was unbelievable, it was hard picking one but I finally picked a good old chai tea and enjoyed spending some quality time talking and learning more about Barcelona!

Later in the week Dayna another friend from high school came to visit!

There was a lot going on but here's a brief overview:

stumbled upon a vintage antique market

ate delicious doner durums, kind of like a burrito but way different

went to a magic shop

Found the Barcelona Cathedral which happened to have birds living in a courtyard?

The next day we got up early and met up with Caitlin to go to the big market, La Boqueria and get some fresh food to make lunch!

After filling our bellies with a delicious lentil soup and green beans we headed to La Sagrada Familia

We asked someone to take our picture and right after she took it her friend said she could take a better one! haha

It was a good day and there's more of the weekend to be continued...

Street views

un bocadillo!

Randomly happened upon a parade! Still don't know what it was for

a trip to la boqueria

We went to a famous farmer's market today, it was so big they even gave us a map!

All I can say is wow you can get anything from apricots to fresh squid to passion fruit to chocolates to fresh bread. It was amazing and I managed to buy everything I wanted to less than 7 euros!

The entrance:

old

I still can't get over how crazy it feels to be walking around this ancient city

The map photos are from a local art museum that had a random section of ancient maps. I love looking at old maps it feels as though they were more meticulous in detailing the look of the city rather than documenting the actual street directions and sizes, just look at those ships on the water!

pan y tarea

My first assignment while here in Spain! This is for the malleable materials class and we had to make positive/negative shapes with paper. It was funny though because after I spoke to my teacher about how I don't speak Catalan she reassured me in Castellano that I would be fine and handed me the syllabus and asked me if I could understand it. I looked at it and it was definitely in Catalan... when I told her that I couldn't read it she laughed because she hadn't noticed the difference! She had actually thought it was in Castellano! haa so silly

I'm really excited about this malleable materials class, we are working with wax and making molds and for the final we are designing a soap brand, packaging and all!

This was all created with the help of these deliciously fluffy little breads from the bakery across the way:

Cute things

How cute are these little flowers from emersonmade!

ya adorable