Today was much slower paced than the previous three. I was able to sleep in which was nice and take my time getting ready for the day. Dana and I took a nice walk around town in the afternoon and got the feel for our neighborhood. She was looking for a converter to charge her computer so we had an interesting time finding one of those. We realized we live in a very central area of town. There is a train station about two blocks from our apartment on the left and a metro stop about the same distance on our right. There are plenty of restaurant and shops as well. We walked around for a bit after Dana found her converter and stopped at a nice café for some smoothies. The café was right by this beautiful plaza, which I later learned was Placa Espana, and had this gorgeous statue in the center with a fountain running through it. After our walk around town we set out for campus where we were supposed to be meeting our program for orientation. We asked our host dad how to get there during lunch and made our way to the metro. The metro part was no problem, Dana was used to using them back in Toronto where she is from. Once we got to the metro stop though we head quite a tough time orienting ourselves. We finally found the school, 45 minutes after we were supposed to meet everyone, and awkwardly walked into the classroom where everyone else already was. Oops. It turned out that we hadnt missed too much. We found out what classes we were in, International Market and Art and Culture for me. From my schedule I could tell that I started at 9:30 am every day and finished at 2 pm, and no Fridays. Not too bad for summer school. Later that night after a wonderful dinner with our host family Dana and I
had our first experience in a Barcelona bar. Everyone met up at this bar called Dow Jones. Drinks and their prices were listed on screens all around the bar and every half hour the market "crashed." It was quite the experience.
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