I don't know what to call this post...more updates!!

I'll start with last Wednesday, where I was just about to get to in my last post. Megan and I were invited by Isaac, Jaime, and Eloi to a fiesta del dia their university (UPC) was holding. This fiesta was an all day event that students went to between classes and had food, drinks (the innocent and not so innocent kinds), music, and tables for organizations that were fund-raising or just advertising. Megan and I went after our class (well we actually left Spanish class early) and were there from 3:30ish to 9. We witnessed spaniards singing The Beatles and Wonderwall, really well actually, "Flying Flan", a competition to see who could catch flan in their mouth from the farthest distance (SO SO hilarious!! and I got flan splattered on me from being too close to a guy catching it), and Catalan flag shots, another competition between a lot of guys and a few brave girls to see who could down 9 shots of alternating beer/sangria the fastest. When they were in order, the shots represented a red and yellow Catalan flag (very patriotic ha ha). When the fiesta was winding down, I went with Isaac to see if he could find another helmet so he could take me home on his motobike. He didn't find one, but we ran into a few rugby friends of his and ended up walking down diagonal to have a few drinks with them. I primarily just sat there and looked pretty while he and his friends talked in Spanish. I could understand a lot of the words they were saying but had a hard time stringing them into sentences and understanding the whole thing, but I was still proud of myself. Isaac or Jose, the other guy who knew english well, would occasionally fill me in on what was happening or make sure to include me in the conversation. However, a lot of the convo was about rugby and I didn't mind just relaxing since I know nothing of rugby!
Thursday was pretty uneventful, but on Friday I had no classes! Because of this, Megan and I decided we would go to Montjuic with our sack lunches and see MNAC and the Botanical Garden. We also wanted to see the Labyrinth park but that didn't work out. MNAC is the museum of Catalan art, where they have preserved a lot of art from churches and monasteries that would have been destroyed or stolen if it wasn't removed. When we got to the museum, we discovered that we had to pay and decided it wasn't worth it at the time, so we went to the free exhibit (which was NOT cool). Afterward, we went to find the garden. We found a small, wild-looking garden and explored it and ate our lunches there. At first I thought it was the botanical garden but after walking through it we found it was WAY too small to be so. However, the garden was beautiful and had actual dirt paths. We stayed there until a group of 7 yr olds showed up and started running and screaming everywhere. We then walked up past the Olympic stadium and got some good views of the whole of Montjuic mountain, and afterward found the Jardin Botanic behind the stadium. Before going in, we saw a really nice looking patch of flowers and ran and lay down in them! It was refreshing to lie in grass for once. We then got up and went inside the garden and oh was it beautiful!! It was set up with plants from 8 different areas, including California, Africa, the Med., Australia, etc, and a lot of flowers were in bloom. We walked around and often caught a whiff of something magnificent, in which case we would stop and look around until we found the culprit and then go stick our faces in the flowers to soak up the smell!! We walked around until it was almost time to head back to the dorm to get ready for a birthday party! we had to go to that evening. Before we left the garden we found a little boardwalk area over a large goldfish pond, and decided to take some pictures of us doing cartwheels, jumping, etc etc...Well, we returned to the dorm and got ready to go out, and then met Jaime at UPC. It was Isaac's and one of his friend's birthdays and they were all celebrating together. I got to meet tons of new people and had A LOT of fun! We all went out to eat Chinese together, which was delicious, and then went out to a bar, where Isaac's friends attempted to get him and his birthday pal really drunk..those hombres traviesos!
Saturday was a bumming around day because it started raining and then rained ALL day long (it hasn't stopped yet and it's Thursday now!) On Saturday evening Megan and I went to a show called Opera y Flamenco. It was really intense and we both enjoyed it! However, when the show was done, we were flamenco'd out. The show had a violinist, violist, guitarist (2), vocalist, drummer, and pianist. There were also 2 opera singers and 2 flamenco dancers. They would basically just go from song to song, dance to dance, and intersperse these with Opera pieces like the Habanera from Carmen. At one point the female flamenco dancer had a dress on with a very long skirt that she kicked around with her heels and she tripped and fell down HARD. However, that girl was good cause she got right back up and made it seem like the entire fall was part of the act. Megan and I weren't sure that it was actually an accident (but it was :D). After the show we went to Pizza Hut to try their pizza. It was not good. At all. I'll wait till I'm back in the states to have pizza hut again! We then went home and went to bed!
Nothing exciting has happened since then. I've actually had homework to do (I know, amazing) and it has been rainy and dreary. Although yesterday my Spanish class went on a field trip to a market where our teacher had us sample these special donuts that Catholics eat during Lent. Guess what they have in them....Anis and Cinnamon. Anis, as in the alcohol that is in Absinthe...These donuts tasted WEIRD. Those Spanish Catholics....Today I am getting ready to go to Germany for a week!!! I'm so excited!! Frankfurt, St. Goar, Schwalmstadt, Freiburg/Triburg, Nuremburg, and Prague!! Say a prayer for me and my travel safety, por favor. And tonight I am going to see Isaac again as well :)
Goodbye for now and love for all!