Gazpacho

Well, I have found my new favorite food which is... Gazpacho (cold soups that are ooh so delicious):D. It's starting to get warmer here so Maria Louisa will be making it more apparently and that is very exciting. I'm done with round 1 of exams which feels amazing! I don't have grades back yet, but they are done so praise the Lord!

Yesterday I went on a picnic to the Plaza de Espana (my favorite place in Sevilla) and had a picnic with some friends. It was gorgeous... and hot, yes in February (I was sweating in a skirt and sleeveless shirt). That is the life. Then we went walking through Maria Louisa Park which I hadn't really had time to explore yet. It's seriously a forest in the middle of the city. As it continues to warm up I will definitely be doing a lot of my studying there. Filled with fountains and gazebos and benches (of tiles of course), it's perfect.

Also, I've come to love the conversations about English and America with foreigners. For example, for Spaniards cannot tell the difference between the words ship, sheet, sheep, cheap, sh*t, chip, and I'm sure more too. It's hilarious hearing them rant over how all of them are exactly the same. I had a similar conversation while I was in Barcelona with an Australian about the metric system and how we have Washington state on the opposite side of the country as Washington DC. Fun times :D

And finally, here are some pictures from Barcelona :D


This is the Sagrada Familia. It's a church that they are still working on. Gaudi designed it and was killed in a train accident before it was finished. It's one of those things that can't be captured in a picture.


This was my favorite place I went but they didn't allow pictures inside. Almost the entire inside of the building is covered with tiles like these head to toe. It's the Palau de Musica Catalan and they hold all kinds of concerts. Everything but operas they said haha. Look it up for pictures because it was definitely worth the 9 euro tour.


This is my favorite Gaudi building that we saw. I felt like I was in Candy land or something. It's just right there on the street in between all of the normal buildings.


This is at the park that Gaudi designed. These benches are around the entire thing and all of them have a different collage of tile on them. I loved it!


This is the huge monument of Christopher Columbus pointing to the new world :D.