road trip day 1

Evan came to visit Barcelona for 2 weeks and we took a road trip along the southern coast of France, so beautiful! We drove for a while the first day and stayed in a small town near St. Tropez called St. Maxime, cutest town ever! We explored little nearby towns each day. It was so calm at the beaches and the towns felt like something out of a movie.

Here are some photos from the drive, lots more to come!

our lovely gps that did NOT have any info about France! I didn't even know they made them like that! So we went the old fashioned way with a real map!

silly yet effective road signs

snack time!

following the signs

we made it!

long time no see

hi again,

hmm where to start... I have so many photos to show!

I guess first I'll show some photos of my jar project because I never did get around to posting about it, so here goes!

We all made 30 objects that would cost us 1 euro, so on the last day of class we all exchanged products! It was the best final ever. Here are some of my classmates products:

Some close ups of my Jarra project, I made 6 different kinds of inserts for the jars so that you could pick what you liked the most. Each one had a word on the front describing the function

One for a plant (planta):

A piggy bank (ahorra):

The backs all had a brief description of their function:

one for your pens, pencils, or scissors (lapiz):

one to hang your keys on and not forget them (recuerda), one to organize your jewelry (guarda), and one to display your photos (foto):

spring for reals : )

Just got back to Barcelona from a beautiful trip to France with Evan, I will post lots of pictures soon.

But for now,

angus and julia stone

I havn't posted any music on here before but Angus and Julia Stone have been a favorite band for a while and they just released a new album, "Down the Way" it's beautiful

Some other good songs from them: Mango Tree, Just a Boy, Hollywood

Check them out!

learning

Between waiting hours and hours for a computer rendering to finish, waiting for the wax in the mold to dry, waiting an extra 3 minutes for the next metro or waiting for a very delayed flight to get here, patience is the only way to deal. I think it's harder for our generation too because we are so used to having everything be instant. But getting frustrated angry or upset won't help the situation one bit, so be patient, the time will come.

I am going to try to post one thing I learn each day. I realized that I have learned a lot of things but it's hard to keep track so I am going to try to post something each day, we'll see how it goes!

project in progress

if you can't tell i fell in love with the jars yogurt comes in

I'm doing my last project for my design class on them, I'll post more when I'm done this is just a sneak peak! haha

snow?

So this is yesterday:

creepy picture of me haha but look at the snow chunks!

then it rained

It's crazy because a week ago in my last post I was just saying how warm it had been I was even in a t shirt at the beach!! pssh I don't understand especially because this is today:

and a yummy breakfast!

So this is my last week of classes for the first trimester! Lots of work and not so much play but its almost spring break!! I can't believe how fast the time goes!

class outing// paseo

Last week I went on a field trip with my manufacturing class to a metal casting manufacturer! The plan was to meet up with a friend from class (who happens to live less than a block a away) at 10 am giving us a half hour to get there and she would lead the way. I set my alarm for 9 am buuut for some reason at 10:05 I get woken up by a call from her asking where I was! What is it with me and being places on time... I don't get it! So starts heading to the train station and tells me the directions so I can meet them there. This was probably the fastest I've gotten ready in a long time haha and I run out the door to the station wearing of course a shirt and jacket that don't match... So the train system (Renfe) here is a bit confusing, there are no maps once you get underground! I don't understand why that is... so once there I had the security lady write down which trains would take me where I needed to go and get a call from my friend saying that she got on the wrong train! haha so she ended up coming back and we took the same train there.

The area by the factory was so different from Barcelona! There was open space and land and it felt so nice to see the sky everywhere! We walked up the street and see a group of our classmates and realize they were still outside!... only to realize they had been waiting just for us! haha o geez.