Days 2 & 4

Ok, so the goal was to update this daily.... as you can see already by the second day I have failed. And actually Day 1 was written on day 4. FAIL.

SUNDAY, JUNE 6
Ok, so day 2- what did I do? Um, well I slept until 1:30pm when Kelsey knocked on our door and wanted someone to go eat with her. We walked down to the bar and had lunch. I had a ham and cheese baugette with no fries (although, I totally ordered them-and the waiter acknowledged that I ordered them!) grr. We missed out on the tours of the campus so we chilled in the room until 5pm for the demo of how to use the public transportation. (I´m gonna wished I had paid attention to which night bus comes to our dorms :/ lol) So we went into town, bought a few groceries at the only store open today (on Sunday and during siesta time). That´s about as exciting as Sunday got.

Monday, June 7th
We had orientation from 10:30-12:30, lunch at the hotel then me and Leandres caught the train and went on an adventure to try and find Barcelona´s version of Target... we found it with no trouble! AND IT´S HUGE! They have everything; washers, driers, lawn movwers, cell phones, groceries, books, animal legs... seriously, they have everything! Oh, even a Claire´s!!! We did a little shopping (I forgot my hair dryer) then headed back and had Lukas take us to the gym to register. Seriously, that walk from the dorm to the gym is a workout in itself! It has to be like a mile and a half, or quarter of a mile, whatever. Then dinner at 7pm. We all decided to go out since we would need our rest tomorrow for work on Wednesday so we all went back to our rooms and got dressed up. I was so tired, but knew I´d regret it if I didn´t go so I got dressed and we went to Nicholas´ room to ¨pre-game¨. They don´t pregame in Spain, nor do the drink to get drunk, it´s all a social thing. However, we´re American´s and we like to do things our way, so we pre-gamed! We chilled till about 11:20 or so then started rounding people up to head to the train. All 40 of us start walking up the hill when we pass a girl that tells us, she just got off the last train of the night. FYI-the last train comes through our stop at 11:23pm. I don´t think we´ll ever miss the train again. lol So we all turned around and headed to the bus stop. We find out that the next bus leaves at 1am or 1:40am, people weren´t really sure which so we pregamed some more until about 12:45 then headed to the bus stop. At 1:15 we figured it probably runs at 1:40 so back to pregaming we went. I decided I was too sleepy and knew that everyone was staying out until at least 5am (when the trains started back) and I wouldn´t be worth anything for the next 2 days so I went on to bed.
Some people that went ended up just walking around, others got into a club and partied till around 7am, while one group decided to chill on the beach. I´m not sure if they forgot, or didn´t know, but the public transportation system went on strike today from 10am-5pm then 7pm-5am. So they ended up sleeping on the beach and didn´t return until 7pm Wednesday. One girl ended up getting her purse stolen.
Did I mention I slept really good that night?! lol

TUESDAY, JUNE 8
I woke up about 9 and got dressed for orientation. I tried waking Leandres up but she didn´t get in until 7:45am so there was really no hope. Orientation until 11 then lunch at 1pm. After lunch, Clair, Jessica (I think that´s her name) and myself went walking to see where the trail behind our dorm lead to. (It comes out right beside the soccerfields-should have guessed). The public transportation system is on strike from 10am-5pm then 7pm-5am so we can´t really go anywhere... We found a few more trails then walked across the train station to the little town on the other side. I went back to the room and changed for our practice runs. Thank goodness the train will be working for 2 hours so I can go find my job!
I´m in Stephanie´s group along with Clair. Actually, only us two came today so Stephanie walked us up a block and pointed us in the right direction. I only had two turns to make and found it quite easily. I went back to the train station where Stephanie was suppose to be waiting, but I couldn´t find her, so I grabbed the next train to Bellaterra and called her to see where she was.
Clair couldn´t find her job, so Stephanie had left to go help her. Back to campus for dinner then to the room to crash. Tomorrow´s the big day! :)