Madrid and a weekend in barca

well i guess its about time i update this again...especially since it officially disappeared from my top sites which means i REALLY need to step up my game. I know i said i wanted to make a very in depth post about madrid but im sure i could easily sum it up. Differences between barcelona and madrid- madrid was much more city like...almost felt like i was in london. There were more poor people which made it more depressing. there were street performers everywhere and people who had things in their mouths that made them sound like talking babies. Liz was so freaked out by them and we didnt find out until the last day that they had things in their mouths to make those noises and they didnt just have some odd talent. I liked madrid a lot and i got to see Jackie and other marist people which was nice. The food was awesome and we ate a lot. We went on a food tour and stopped at a bunch of places. We went to the best patatas bravas place in the world. We also went to two little mexican restaurants. One was very classy and the other was a hole in the wall. Both were great.  We went on a guided tour which was nice except i fell asleep on the bus...typically. We went to a club called kapital that is 7 floors and each floor has a different type of music. We went to the reina sofia and the prado museums. I liked the city square of madrid and how there was so much in one place but i felt significantly more unsafe there than i do here. On the last day of our trip we went exploring and found this really cool lot that was basically an outdoor area made into an indoor area by using plastic and balloons. There was graffiti everywhere so of course it was one of my favorite places we went. overall it was a good trip.

                                                  One of the mexican restaurants and our waiter

At Kapital

Street performers

View from the balcony at Kapital

The cool balloon place

Soooooo after our weekend in Madrid it was back to barcelona. We were once again happy to be back. on Monday we went to loco lunes for the first time which we are now obsessed with. Tuesday...valentines day...we all went out to dinner. Wednesday was Laidback luke which was absolutely amazing. We were up so close i almost could touch him. Thursday we went to opium for the first time and it was also awesome. Friday we went to chupitos finally but it was so crowded that it wasnt as fun but im sure we will go again. After we went to duvet and it was masquarade themed so they gave us free masks and free drinks. There was nobody there so we finished our drinks and went to city hall which was also cool. We met a group of army boys from the US who are stationed in Germany and we hung out with them for a little. Saturday we went to las ramblas for the first time and went to a little bar there and then mcdonalds. Sunday we went to sitges for carnaval which was amazing. we didnt have outfits so we dressed in crazy clothes. we had the most amazing wraps of our entire lives in sitges which just made me fall more in love with the place. We went to classes on monday and tuesday we went to sitges again. We thought that sunday was more fun but both nights were crazy. Last night we went to ice bar and it was awesome. tomorrow morning we leave for germany. I PROMISE i will update RIGHT after i get back from germany. 

Lebewohl! (goodbye in german)

clearly slacking

ive clearly been slacking with blogging but i recently decided to watch all of the shows i watch at home online so thats whats been taking up most of my free time. Im going to skip last week at school because lets be real school is school and its not that fun. Ill jump to the fun part...the weekend. last friday we had a day trip to montserrat and sitges. im officially in love with sitges and moving there.

its the cutest little beach town. Our tour guide said that it has a magical power and people fall in love with it there and i honestly felt it. I didnt want to leave. Luckily thats where carnival is so i will be going there in a week. Monteserrat was also cool. Forgot to mention that there was record lows in temperatures here and there were actually some flurries. Since they never see snow here and arent prepared for it all the spaniards were freaking out and some schools even got let out early. Montserrat had some snow so I got to see some snow this winter! 

Montserrat has a monastery and an all boys music school. Its a very historical place but of course i liked sitges better. Also we went to a place for lunch and they gave us so much food. We had calcotada which is onions basically burnt and you had to rip off the burnt part and dip it in a sauce and eat it. It wasnt bad at all. We also got artichokes which i was happy about. Ive been eating more artichokes here than ever before. Loving it. we also had bread with rubbed tomato on it which is very popular here. Also we had sausage and salad. I think that was it....but it was one of the best meals we have had so far here and it was free so that was nice. Saturday Liz and i decided to venture out and we ended up finding this cool restaurant which huge pita like sandwiches.

Saturday night we went to the FC Barca game which was awesome. we had really great seats and of course they won. 

Sunday we went to the MNAC museum which was really cool. The museum itself was set up really cool with the time periods separated and the room with the oldest time period was actually made to look like a  church. After that we went to the mall which was made in the old bull fighting ring and got mexican food finally. We went home and did some homework and then went out to watch the superbowl. of course we are so slow and didnt leave in time to get into ryans pub which is where all the study abroad students were going to so we ended up going to Dunnes instead. We ended up meeting a sweedish soccer team and hanging out with them the whole night. Only a few of them spoke english but it was funny to talk to those who did speak english. They asked us at one point if justin bieber was our "fantasma" and we were like what is a fanstasma...its a fantasy...we though it was really funny. They also were all booing justin bieber and had no idea what the superbowl was but i got them to root for the giants anyway. This week classes were pretty cool actually. With my photo class i went to the born district and in my history class i went to the jewish quarter. Between those two trips i found some of the coolest restaruants and stores. Not to mention saw some of the best graffiti i have ever seen

Im so happy that i found these places and now Jaume I is officially my favorite metro stop. Last night we went to Nervo which was really good. This weekend were going to Madrid. Ill be sure to blog right after so I can give a little more descriptive post!

Adios!