WOW. Just wow. Barcelona is amazing and I haven’t even explore the whole city yet! I’m loving this so far and my UBC friends are also here too! Gonna be good times all around. I apologize in advance for posting this so late, so much has been going on when I was in the process of writing this.

look at that face

Anywho this was my first week in Barcelona and I already missed some intro spanish classes, because of my broken ankle. It is still swollen and it hurts when I walk too much. I arrived on thursday September 4 and on my way to Barcelona, I had two layovers. First was at London, where I’ve picked up the September issue of GQ, because Harry was on the cover. Gotta support ma boys ya know?!

9.90 euro dinner at L’Ham

My next stop was Frankfurt, which by then I was grumpy and tired, and couldn’t possibly wait any longer to go to Barcelona. Once I arrived to Barcelona, I was picked up by my landlord (Marc). He attends the same school as me (ESADE), but he is in the Masters program and a few years older. From what I have observed so far, he is super nice and easy to talk to. In fact, he made sure we fell in love with the city by bringing us out for dinners, sightseeing and parties. Like on Friday night, he brought us to L’Ham for dinner. It was amazing like for realz. 9.90€ for a three course dinner with dessert and wine! The reason why it was so cheap was because this restaurant was a culinary school and it was a chance for their students to practice working in a real restaurant environment. So worth it and I was so full.

airport style

I know zero spanish, so the intro class is definitely helping a lot, but during the first class, I felt so stupid and I hated that feeling. I took french throughout high school, so I’m so accustom to saying “merci”, “oui”, “bonjour”, “au revoir”, and etc. But I have faith that I can pick up some spanish during this 4-month period. My classmates are from all over the world and they are really friendly and inclusive. They’ve already invited me to go clubbing with them, but I wasn’t feeling up to it since I am still settling in and I had so much to do like getting a sim card for my phone, groceries, learning how to get to school and around the city and setting up a bank account. Not to mention this blog. I think I’m gonna try to post every Sunday and recap everything I did during the week and if I get more free time, I will post during the week too.

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This is a rather late post, but I’ll try to keep up. RIght now, my friends Cicely and Miya are visiting (they are studying in Pamplona), so we’ve been hanging out a lot and they reminded me a lot of home since we’re all from UBC. Always good to see a familiar face.

Anywho, there’s more to come and my body, mind and soul is ready! Haha.

Cheers,

Kevin