Catholicism?

Well it’s been a little while since I’ve blogged, which could be a result of any combination of laziness, business, or the fuzziness of all my new pictures. I’ve learned a lesson about taking photos at night: don’t. At least, not unless you have one of THESE cameras. Then you ask everyone to stand still for 2 hours until the picture is done. That’ll work, right?

Anyway, I’ve done some fun things. Sunday was declared exploration day when we realized it couldn’t be shopping day, so I went to the Cathedral. Again, like all the cathedrals I’ve seen here (read:2) it was breathtaking. If I lived here (huh-I do.) I’d probably become Catholic just so I could go there for any reason other than looking. And put a coin in the thing to light a candle and all those cool Catholic things. It’s amazing to think that these people designed these places to glorify their god, and impressive how successful they were (especially Gaudi – sorry Cathedral people).

Classes started as well. I’m taking some a different university, which hasn’t started yet, and I’m a little more excited about those because the program looks a lot better, honestly, than IES – they gave us catalan-english phrasebooks and a little book of tips and ID cards and in general seemed much more organized. But the IES classes are ok. My Spanish professor is this young Italian guy who has us using twitter and such – which is strange but he’s really funny and I feel like that class is much more useful than any of the stupid grammar classes I’ve taken (except with Senor, of course). Unfortunately, the Spanish students in the dorms are not being paid to teach me Spanish, and thus are not so forthcoming. Also I’ve found that the American students that were here last year did not integrate themselves well (were huge assholes) and I get the feeling that that is affecting how all of us are viewed as well. I’m looking into vegetarian options in a homestay to see if I could switch, which I think would make the whole experience more meaningful. So I’ll see how that goes.

Happy whiney depressing blog day! I’m gonna do some more exploring now, until my internet starts to work and I can actually post this.