Hola todos!
The past couple days have been busy with classes and tours. On Thursday, we went on a tour of the Barrí Gótica en Barcelona. This is the oldest part of Barcelona and was settled before Christ! Crazy, huh? This part of town used to be a wall, Roman city. You can still see part of the wall today, but there is only one part of the old Roman city that still remains. The picture to the left shows these remains; collums from a temple. We also visited the old main plaze, where Christopher Columbus was greated after discovering America. Then we say the Barcelona cathedral, which remineded me a lot of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. It was beautiful and one of Barelona's partron saints, Eulalia, is buried inside.
Thursday night, Brittany, Lindsey and I decided to check out some bar in our area in hopes of meeting some locals and practicing our spanish. We went to this bar called El Dorado. We were all of 12 people in there. However, we did meet some locals. They asked us to play fooseball, which I found out Spanish take just as seriously as soccer, and pool. In comparison to these locals, we sucked at fooseball. Let's just say I scored three goals the whole night, two of which were for the other team. Brittany played very well, but was then yelled at for spinning the fooseball players, which is not allowed. We then moved on to pool. I made two ball is, but they didn't count because the game was already over. All in all, we had fun and were able to practice a little bit of our Spanish: mission accomplished.
Yesterday, we traveled to Cordonui, which is one of the world's largest wineries; the wine cellars are over 30km when combined! It was incredible and beautiful. They make about 50 million bottles of wine and cava a year. Cava is Catalan sparkling wine, which tastes amazing. It was very interesting to learn the process of making cava; the fermenting processes, the aging processes, 
the sentiment removing processes. I loved it. After we were told about how it was made, we hopped on a little tram-car-train thing and rode through the oldest part of the winery, which was dug out by workers back in the 1800's. We also went into the room where the first bottles of cava were made at this winery. The founder also saved the first grape vine (picture to the left) he used and coved it in metal so it would last forever! My favorite part of the tour was the end, when we got to try the cava. It was some of the best wine I have ever had, which of course led me to buy my own bottle :)
the sentiment removing processes. I loved it. After we were told about how it was made, we hopped on a little tram-car-train thing and rode through the oldest part of the winery, which was dug out by workers back in the 1800's. We also went into the room where the first bottles of cava were made at this winery. The founder also saved the first grape vine (picture to the left) he used and coved it in metal so it would last forever! My favorite part of the tour was the end, when we got to try the cava. It was some of the best wine I have ever had, which of course led me to buy my own bottle :)After our winery tour, we headed to Sitges, which is a small sea side town. It was really cute and the beach was beautiful. However, it was too windy to lay out. We decided instead to sample some helado (ice cream), which wasn't too bad of a compromise!
We finished our evening off by going to the magic 
fountian show at Montjuic in Barcelona. It was so romantic; wish I had someone to share it with :(
fountian show at Montjuic in Barcelona. It was so romantic; wish I had someone to share it with :(On the agenda for today: BARCELONA SOCCER GAME!! Can't wait to hear them say "GOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLLL"
Adios!
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