Les Mecaniques

It turns out that I arrived a day earlier than the rest of my group. So last night I took a shower and came down to the lobby of the hostel to find someone to eat dinner with. I walked up to the only group of people there and introduced myself. We started chatting and turns out that they were a group of mechanics from the south of France who were there on an exchange program. Two of their professors and one boy spoke excellent Spanish so I spent most of my time talking to them. The other boys spoke no English and no Spanish, and my French is a step below elementary. So we attempted to communicate over dinner and some cerveza. I would speak in Spanish to Martin and he would translate for everyone else. And you would be surprised by how much you can actually communicate with people even if your only common language is neither of your native tongues. It was definitely an interesting dinner.

Today my group arrived and it was so weird to hear people speaking English. I was amazed at how fast I was able to get my points across in English. It´s like I forgot how easy it is to communicate in English. Haha Hopefully one day Spanish will come to me that easily, but until then, I know that I´ll have to struggle a bit.

I¨m currently waiting for the rest of my group to finish showering and napping. Silly jet lag. I´m well ahead of them in that sense. Two other girls and I already went for a run to explore a bit of the city. I already had a quasi shower. It was absolutely miserable. It was luke warm and its the kind of shower that you have to push a button every 6 seconds to keep the water flowing otherwise it turns off. Damn the business conference that´s going on in Barcelona that forced us to get a hostel instead of an actual hotel...

Anyway, that´s all for now. Tomorrow we´re going to see some of sites of the city. oMaybe las ramblas or la Sagrada Familia. hasta luego!