SPAIN barcelona (cata cata catalan!)
aaagh is is so good to sleep in the same bed and not have to worry about check-out time. i am actually home to enjoy my place now that i am done working my miserable 75 hour week. never again. i mean, it defeats the purpose of living here in barça. things can only get better from here! i got really lucky with my living situation, and currently live in a four-bedroom flat with two italians (carlo and giulia) and a spaniard (juampi). the only shitty thing is that three out of the four bedrooms’ windows open into the building’s courtyard so i get no natural light…the positive to this is that my room is really dark and i can sleep in forever. our place is next to la sagrada familia, so it is cool to see my favorite architectural piece of barça everyday!
so much for improving my spanish! the main language here is catalán, and if it is printed i can sort of read it…but have no clue when it comes to listening and watching a program. hanging out with people from the irish pub does not help either. so i try talking to my roommates when i am home…always with a dictionary on hand! in the last year, my english has started getting crappy from speaking broken english to foreigners (right, lish?), my spanish has improved a little, my japanese is somewhere in between, and i have had to substitute american english words for british english on some occasions. like when i was trying to work my work SCHEDULE for flyering…and kept hearing “rota. rota. “ no one ever told me it meant schedule! because of all these factors, i think it is hilarious that i am going to be picking up some english teaching classes to keep me going. we’ll see how it goes!
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