Day 2 of work and I´m a high roller...

THURSDAY JUNE, 10
So day 2 of work... I really didn´t want to wake up this morning! The train ride from the dorm to my work takes an hour. :/ It sucks major, but I´m used to it from driving to and from UNA the past year.
I get to work and it´s coffee time, we walk down to the little cafe with the hott spanish man and get a cup of coffee. Back to work. I finish up both the english and spanish files that Ireñe asked me to do around 1pm. She was suprised that I was finished, so I´ve been piddling around until she thinks I should be finished.
At 3 we walked back down to the cafe and ordered beer, pork & cheese baugettes and patatas bravas (brave potatos). This is by far the best meal I´ve had yet! It was delicious! The potatos are AMAZING! When we finished we walked over to pay and the hott spanish guy was taking up money. Now, he´s already laughed at me once today, because when I ordered my coffee he told me Uno y vienteycinco. He said it super fast and it didn´t register to me that it was 1€25cents... so I said "One more time" (in english) so he and Birgit laughed at me. I was ready this time! I was going to tell him what I had, in spanish, lomo con queso y una cerveza. I guess Birgit didn´t have faith in me and told him what I had. He told me cinco...something so I needed him to repeat so I said "Una vez mas", well him and Birgit started laughing again. So I handed him 5€ and said gracias, and he said thank you. Birgit got on to him and told him he´s suppose to be helping me learn my spanish and he said tomorrow he´d talk to me in Catalan. :/ I told him no. lol Back to work until 6:30.
I got ready to leave and told Birgit Hasta mañana, and she told me about a Lamp Lighting party tonight at 8pm and invited me to come. It´s super exclusive, so she had my name put on a list. I rushed back to the dorm, got a shower, changed clothes (including 5" heels that I should have reconsidered) and got directions from the staff members. I was a little nervous going becasue it would be dark by the time I got there and I had to walk down las ramblas... which is not very safe-especially wearing a short dress, heels and being american! But I made it, I spotted the hotel and started walking. I saw a group of guys that looked American and while at a cross walk I read their jackets and it said USA, so I asked where they were from and they told me they were from all over, they´re on the USA swim team, which was pretty cool. I made it to the hotel and up to the party which was pretty swanky-lots of people, music and an open bar. It was on the terrace of the hotel which overlooked the port and beach! AMAZING! I stayed a little over an hour because my phone was dying and I didn´t know which bus I needed to catch, so I called Mary Elizabeth and met up with her.
I ended up staying the night at Mary´s. We all stayed up until 4am talking then headed to bed.
Pretty good day :)