1 day....

So today is the big day. I leave in an hour to start my journey home. I will be leaving on a train to Madrid...arrive in Madrid late tonight and then go straight to the airport. At the airport I will wait and wait and wait...haha...Ya I will be there for awhile and then fly out mid morning! I'm stoked. It seems so surreal though. They say while studying abroad you learn things about yourself and about the world. I would definitely say that I have changed as a person for sure. I have experiences and people I have met and memories I have made that will stay with me for a life time. I know that I will miss so much about my time here. It is weird to think that I will be going home. I have looked forward to this day and thought of all the things I have missed in America but now that I am going there I dont know how to feel.

I have had a great time and look forward to what God has in store for my future! Hopefully another big adventure soon!

2 days.....

Not much to say today...I head out tomorrow evening for Madrid and then will chill at the airport and leave Saturday Morning! CRAZY! It has been a blast though...

Here is a small taste of what my last amount of time in Barcelona is looking like....

3 Days...

So this is really the end of the third day but it was a sad one. I said goodbye to a lot of great friends and really realized that I have been away from home for 3 1/2 months and really studied abroad....the concept seems so strange. Three more days and I will be back home and life will go on as normal and how it has since I have been gone. The evening ended with shopping with Marcela and Nora and getting last minute presents for people and then meeting Calvin, Allison, her sister and Lacey for dinner. We ate at a Lebanese Restaurant and had 3 bottles of Spanish wine. We laughed about all the great times we had had together. It was the perfect way to say goodbye but so sad! At least Nora and I have one more day together!

Interesting thing for today....
These are the little mail boxes. They are all over the place and you drop your letters off in the box. Nora has an obsession with these! haha! I just thought they were neat because they look so different!

4 Days...

Today was my last day of the semester. I took an International Business final and an Architecture of Barcelona final. I think I did really well and I found out that I passed my Spanish Class so that was exciting. All of grades are pass/fail here! Now I am just super tired and about to start the second half of my week. This half will be saying goodbye to everyone and packing and then the last two days are travel travel travel.

Interesting Thing for today....


The sign above is from a bar from right down the street. Here everyone goes to bars to watch the game. They get sooo crowded when there is an FC Barcelona game. Many people go an hour or so before the game just so they can get a good seat and at the game people yell and holler and cheer for their team like crazy!

5 days.....

Today was Spanish final. It was the longest final of my life. The first hour and a half we had to write two paragraphs and do two listening exercises. We then took a break and came back for another hour and a half and did grammar exercises and reading comprehension. The final was worth 70% of my grade! YA CRAZY! After my final I printed out my flight info for going home! AHHHHH! Came home ate lunch, took a shower and a nap. When I woke up was excited to see an email that God had given me the job I wanted really bad in the Spring. I am sooooo excited! So far the Spring semester looks like it is going to go very smoothly.

Well I am down to 5 days and its already 8:15 pm here...so im study study study for my business final tomorrow. I take that and Architecture and then am done for the semester! HOORAY!

The interesting thing for today...
This is the potty at my house. It was really weird getting used to because if you notice you pull a cord from the ceiling to flush it. When i first got here I looked everywhere for where to flush and when i looked up I saw the part is usually at the back at the ceiling a a cord next to it. haha! It's funny how somethings are sooo different here!

6 days....

Today I spent most of the day just chilling. I went to meet with friends at Starbucks around 4pm and we studied for a good three hours! Then I saw Ronnie from home because his band is here playing in Barcelona! It was good to see him! We just walked around and talked for a little while! It was my last Sunday in Europe and I am bout to start a week full of lasts...last day of school...last dinner with my family...last shopping with friends...last last last...

Interesting thing for today...
All of the pharmacies in Europe I think but for sure in Spain are marked with a little green cross outside the door that is lit at night. You can see the pharmacy from far away. This is not like WalGreens at all though because they only have meds here. They barely carry anything else...maybe occasionally shampoo but you are expected to go else where to get items like that!

7 Days....

Today was another study study study day,....the big Spanish test is now only 2 days away! Ahhh...a little scary.

The interesting thing for today is...


These are pictures of the street signs. Its amazing how small they are. They are also positioned on corner of the streets and are almost impossible to see. The first couple days here I was so confused because I could not figure out where the street signs were and how to get where I was going. I do not know how a person can tell if they are driving in a car and I am sure this has caused many car accidents. If you look at the last picture, the little white square is the street sign and I am standing across the street...So imagine being at the intersection! It's CRAZY! This is one thing that I learned very quickly here. You have to memorize where you are going because its nearly impossible to follow street signs!