Saturday

Writing this very late on Sunday, sorry for the confusion.

Yesterday was an open house day at SEK-Catalunya, so I went with Lucia (my buddy) to school.  On Saturday.  After observing Model United Nations -- which is difficult to understand in English, let alone Spanish -- I spent the rest of the morning with Jotham, Simran and Aliya, whose buddies were also there.  Let it suffice to say that playing Grounders on a playground you don´t know is extremely difficult and may result in scrapage of the skin.

For lunch (normally at two o´clock here in Spain), my host family, Connor, and I went to a nearby café, because the kitchen area was being used by some university students to film a movie.  That café has the most amazing orange juice ever; I could have drank three more cups.  Anyways, after lunch we hung around the little square by the restaurant, waiting to see the bike race that goes around Barcelona.  It took about thirty minutes for the first biker to arrive, another thirty minutes for the second, and an hour between that and the rest of the bikers, who must have been held up somewhere.  That´s how it felt, anyways.  Apparently there were more than two hundred of them, but I couldn´t count since we were sitting on a downhill slope.

Since that took so long, right after heading home Lucia, Connor, and I met up with other people in our grade, including Guille and Jotham, and Roger and Colin.  After eating delicious fries we went to a semi-fancy restaurant for dinner (thank goodness we had our own room) for one of our classmate´s birthday party.  The food there was pretty yummy, but there was so much of it.

Everyone learned lots of useful phrases (such as "dudette") and idioms (such as why one cannot say, "I am excited to meet you!" in Spanish).  We also showed Guille, Roger, and Lucia Friday.  Yes, the one by Rebecca Black.  Also, Jotham and Lucia performed a...wonderful rendition of Adele´s Someone Like You.  Wine glasses are instruments, and all animals are gurillas from octania.