Today Megan and I got a lot of walking in! We had an amazing lunch in the caf (something that tasted like pot roast with potatoes and gravy), and then we walked to Camp Nou, which is where FCBarcelona has their home futbol games to get tickets to tomorrow's game. It took a little finding, but it's hard to miss a stadium! We bought tickets in the nosebleed section, then explored their humongous gift shop. Afterward, we walked back up Ave. Diagonal to the metro Maria Cristina and took it to Las Ramblas. We then proceeded to walk around MORE and find cheap FC Barcelona scarves in touristy shops. They are all the rage at games, and people cheer with their scarves rather than with signs, etc. We found some good cheap scarves and a really cool passageway off of Las Ramblas, which we couldn't explore at the time because we had class. My classes today were semi-interesting, and my teacher was hilarious as ever. He gave us an order of magnitude sheet (size of atom, person, earth, galaxy, etc) and it was all in spanish. He told us it was an opportunity to improve our technical spanish and science terms...We also taught him how to say 10x-3 and other things in english. I learned today that the Milky Way Galaxy is "La Via Lactea" in Spanish, which is fun. In Med. Oceanography, I learned that Sperm Whales will go to great lengths to get their favorite meals, which are Giant Squid that live way down, 1000's of meters in the Ocean. Xavier (my teacher) compared the squid to cake for the whales. Haha. Dinner was amazing again, plenty of roast and good potatoes, and now I've gotten my homework done and am ready for sleep! Have to rest up from Rome on Thursday night!!
Oh, and for those who have listened to my many complaints about the Goldwater Scholarship, to which I am currently applying, I am almost finished! I have been working on it since October, and have had my essays edited millions of times (well atleast 10 times), and I'm entering all of them on the online form tomorrow evening. They sound excellent (which they should, with how many times I've changed them), and I am excited to see the outcome of my efforts. Wish me luck!
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Good luck! You worked really hard on that scholarship and they'd be fools not to choose you! Especially when you know so much about sperm whales! ;)
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