This week I did a day trip with my program. We were supposed to do a Jungle Trek adventure park with ziplining, but the rain caused the park to close and cancel our trip. Instead, the program took us to Tarragona, which we had just seen the previous weekend. Nevertheless, it was fun to go back and actually get into the amphitheater and another museum, which we didn't do last time because we spent our money on other things. Afterwards, we went to a town just outside Barcelona for a huge traditional Catalan lunch. The main specialty was a calcotada which is an onion burned in a fire and then served. You eat them by pulling the burned part off and tilt your head back, and drop the long narrow onion down your throat! Crazy, I know, but it was so good! Your fingers do get messy. The lunch was great (they served us more than onions), and the free champagne was great too! Apparently, Spain makes really good champagne, called cava here, as well as good wines. Later this semester, I would love to go on a wine/champagne tour when the weather is nice.
On Saturday, I went to see the inside of La Sagrada Familia, a famous Gaudi church still under construction. Every Saturday in January it is free to the public to see La Sagrada Familia, and since it was the last day to go, I got there early and got right in! Impresionante! No picture could ever capture the magnitude and attention to detail that Gaudi designed. The church is huge, and so beautiful!
That is all for now, but next weekend is my program's trip to Madrid! Should be fun!
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