My Life in Spain: Barcelona

So today was our last day in Barcelona, but tomorrow we meet our host families :) Barcelona has been pretty fun, but I have been so anxious to leave so I can meet my host family. When we arrived in Barcelona a group of students from several different countries joined our group. It’s been pretty interesting talking to everyone and seeing how similar and different our live back at home are. I love talking to everyone that has cool accents too, especially the kids from New Zealand and Australia. It’s been pretty fun to get to know everyone, but it’s sad we all will be going to different areas of Spain tomorrow and won’t get to see each other :(

As we have been touring Barcelona we will sometimes make an attempt to speak in Spanish. Yesterday we went to Starbucks and I was SOOO excited to make my first attempt at speaking Spanish. I spoke so well when I ordered..... then the barista asked me something back in Spanish and I had no idea what she said! When I told my brother Jake about this he told me “When in doubt just say taco!” I’m not sure if thats going to help me though. The same thing happened when I ordered churros with chocolate today, but I had my first churros in Spain were DELICIOUS! In Spain instead of churros with sugar and cinnamon they usually have churros with just sugar and you dip it in hot chocolate. They told us we could drink the hot chocolate, but it had more of a chocolate syrup thickness so it was weird to drink some of it. Below I will add some pictures of the different places in Barcelona we went. I was sad we did’nt have much time to tour, but what I did see was beautiful. We went to La Sagrada Familia which was beautiful!Probably the funniest moment of the trip happened at La Sagrada Familia where we witnessed a group take their clothes off in front of it for a picture! We started talking to them and discovered they are a rowing team from London and were doing a scavenger hunt. One thing on the scavenger hunt was to make a human pyramid, which I got to be apart of!

So tomorrow this stops being a trip and actually becomes my life for awhile. I’m excited, but also nervous. The first few weeks will be especially hard because of my lack of Spanish. I am going to try not to communicate with friends and family often so I don’t get home sick and also so I can avoid using English as much as possible. In my last blog post I mentioned I was going to the same school as a girl named Andrea. We discovered that our host sisters are best friends, so we will probably hang out a lot. We decided that we are going to try extremely hard to not communicate in English when we are together though.