Okay so a lot has happened since I last wrote in my blog over a week ago.. Well I need to finish my Barcelona trip story, the week that occurred after, my equally as amazing as Barcelona trip to Scotland and then this week as well. So I have two weeks worth of updates to do. Anyhow I am going to do Barcelona in somewhat detail (as I wrote down an itinery of what I actually did) the week inbetween briefly and the Scotland trip in real detail and the week after briefly as I don’t have all the time in the world to write this blog and I actually think no one is reading it… If you are tell me ;-)… This blog is more a treat to me for later in life… Also a note, I am starting to drink Stella Artois while doing this update and in British fashion am listening to the fab four; the Beatles J.
Okay so Saturday I wake up at the crack of noon. The girls are either still sleeping or have left to explore and Brandon and Marshall have already went out to explore the town. So myself, Mark, Jason and George all get ready and then go out to explore the town.
First stop we go and take a look at an oldschool church that just put me in awe. I do not recall the name of it but I have it on a greeting card and when I find the greeting card I find I’ll be sure to put the name of it either in this blog or my facebook pics.
We then went to a Chinese resturante where we didn’t have as much trouble ordering because the food menu was in Spanish and English. Best egg roll I have ever ate. We then went around the town and were real tourists. Jason or Mark, can’t recall who at this point went on a popsicle binge. It was quite funny. We looked at little souniver shops and what not and looked around the town. Just beautiful.
We saw this like, ski lift over the city in the far distance and decided we needed to go on it to snap the great photos it would have provided and prob. Spent about two hours finding it, and walked past the docks and a lot of cool stuff including a huge statue of Christopher Columbus pointing out toward “The New World”.
We got to the ski lift thing which looked cool but had about an hour and ½ line and it was getting late so we walked to the commercial beach next to it and sat around for a few minutes before heading back. The guys laid down to catch some rest and I decided to explore some more and went “speedo” shopping when I found a cool little shopping district that felt very “Spanishy” because all of the shops were close together and people crammed in in what felt like a 1400s shopping experience (with modern stuff) in todays world. I bought a shirt which I wore out later in the night.
I went back, showered up and we all went out to look for a cheap dinner place. We ended up splitting up with 3 from the group going to a tapas place and the rest going to a sea food place and I spent 35 euros on my meal… YIKES!!! Very expensive place. Hard to find a cheap place when you can’t speak the native tongue. Anyhow, I had shrimp and I do have to say it was the best shrimp I ever had, I also had a few glasses of Sangra, however you spell it.
After we all met up again the girls, Mark and Jason went to the club and the rest of us went and found a small pub, chilled out for a few drinks and then went back in for the night.
Sunday was a rather shorter day because myself, Brandon and George needed to get to the airport where we were spending the night because our plane left first thing in the morning so we could get to work or class early. Kaite came with us as we went to the bus station to get tickets because her plane leaves Sunday night as opposed to Monday morning. Everyone else’s plane leaves Monday afternoon.
So George, Brandon Katie and I goto the bus station and get tickets to the airport, Katie leaves right away and then Brandon, George and I walk about town and kill time because we do not need to take our bus until like 6.
We do some photo ops, and chill around a beach for a bit but no one goes into the ocean due to having to be on a bus in alittle bit. The beach isn’t a nude beach persay but a lot of girls go nude and they for the most part are so-so… Their was also this one nasty as nude dude, so gross…. Luckily for me 99% of the nudes were chicks…
Anyhow we have lunch and go explore the mall a little for air conditioning, look at the little booths people have set outside selling over priced souvineers and then go to our bus and goto the airport.
While in the airport we see if we can get on an earlier flight and the reply is nada. So George and I start buying bottles of wine (bad idea right). So we sit and have dinner in the airport and see Katie who we assume shes getting ready for her flight when she explains that she booked her return flight two weeks from now on accident and is now on our flight (that we each payed only like 60 Euros for our round trip) for a whooping 500 Euros because of the short notice… Wow, that sucks…
Anyhow the four of us drank wine as Brandon gave in to the drinking and Katie started, I’m pretty sure I may have blacked out.
So in Monday morning I go onto the plane, take a train to where I stay in London, get to my politics class like 40 minutes late hung over… But all was good as the professor is cool.
Monday is boring, eat lunch, clean, take a nap… Monday night’s internship class is by St. Paul’s Cathedral and the prof. takes us around central London and the finical district. Showed some really old and narrow streets that date back to the great fire London had and some great background of the city. I forgot my camera and am honestly a bit errked but its all stuff I’ve seen before or will see again. That reminds me I’ve been trying to see Westmister for a few weeks and haven’t yet, that I do need to see…
So Tuesday I have history class, we are reminded that our oral reports are due in a week. Jason and I are partners. Do random shit during the day and then at night I go and see Phantom of the Oprea. It is amazing… That’s all I can say…
Phantom in London, the original production. Better than Toronto in 6th grade… Better acting, better singing, better performance… It was amazing. I love Phantom of the Opera, always have always will… ‘nuff said on that. PS-Theatre is very Londonish!!
Wednesday I can do in a nutshell because all I did is work at my internship besides my lunch (at the fish shop with the crazy dude I talked about earlier and surly will talk about again). Here goes Wednesday: Go to work. Extremely busy day. Go to fish shack with crazy guy for lunch. Go home, work on Oral Report on Battle of Somme w/Jason
Go to bed early because not feeling good. Take Nyquil at 11 and set alarm for 7.
I could go into detail of what our report was on, but I’ll save that to next week when I actually go over the report. Anyhow by this time its coming close to when I go to Scotland… Thursday was a bland day as well… But Thursday night at 11pm I leave on a busride to Scotland where Caitlin Coast and I would have a three day tour…
Wake up at 8:30. Have to rush to get to work. Average day. Go home, put briefcase on table and then go shopping for a backpack. Found clothes on clearance so bought a much needed sweat shirt, and a few really nice shirts that were normally 80 pounds for 5-10 pounds on clearance. Great success. Came home, struggled with internet to get Caitlin Coast’s number and got ready for Scotland. Long bus ride, little sleep…
Until Next time… Peace. Sorry for doing the updates briefer than normal, Scotland will be indepth, hopefully.
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