This past week I learned a few lessons. Like you can only buy medicine from a pharmacy not a supermarket, corner store, or corte ingles for the matter. Nope, only a pharmacy! Also, do not expect to get a newspaper from anywhere other than a newspaper stand or a gas station if it has a store. I am slowly learning how different life just really is here in Barcelona. It is not only the big things like speaking a different language but the small things like the ones mentioned prior that has really opened my eyes to the cultural difference here. This past week has been an interesting one. President Obama was inagurated this week. AHH! Isn't it great. I love it. We went to this viewing party at the Meridian and got to watch the inaguration in english on a big screen. I am not gonna lie. It felt great to be in a room full of english speaking people for a change. My friend even got interviewed and we actually ended up in the newspaper "La Vanguardia" the next day!. Three weeks in and we are already making the news. It was pretty awesome...definitely the highlight of the week. On the weekend we went to Girona and Besalu which are very pretty and definitely a must see, although it was pretty cold and windy the day we left. We viewed old roman and gothic architecture at various different sites and did a couple walking tours around the city. We even got to make a "very special purchase" which could not be made in the United States which shall remain nameless. Let the goodtimes continue!
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