Català means feeling
Yes I know I haven't kept you updated as regularly as I was planning to. But I have an excuse! I had to write some (angry) letters to my University, to my international travel insurance, my mobile phone contract and some other nice companies who are giving me a hard time. So I have been writing, just not to you :(
But now I have some time so I will updated you about what is going on here. Last weekend my flatmates and me had a pizza party. The only downside on this good news was that they bought 2 vegetarian cheese pizzas for me. That I had to
eat! No sharing and no saving it for the next day!
But after 8 slices I could only smile, and sit.....sorry 2 whole pizzas are just to much for my (small) stomach.
Luckily after a hour or so I could move again and our Brazilian guest wanted to teach us some basic salsa moves. Salsa is nice, unless Antonio starts dancing. So after we all got over our Antonio-shock we just played the latin top 40 and some other South American hits to bad I only knew Shakira, some 80 hits and of course Gloria Estefan. But after that I did play a few ABBA songs so you didn't hear me complain!
For the Saturday I signed up for a Catalan Culture day. Christina and Karime decided to join me because there was wine tasting on the program. The morning started a little bit chaotic, we were suppose to be at a museum at 11 o'clock. The only small problem was we weren't expected, so people got a bit nervous: "what are you people doing here" "why are you here" "Catalan Culture Day", "no doesn't ring a bell". In the end everything turned out to be arranged by someone who talked to the organization for 15 minutes and kept saying: "no idea, no I didn't send those emails" "but here is a print out of the registration mail, with your name here" "No I did not send that". That is what you get if you put middle aged woman with a short term memory in charge!
The day started at a science museum, the majority of the visitors were kids so our guide gave us a tour in 'toddler Spanish/Catalan' so even I could follow it word for word what he was talking about :D
After the guided tour we could wander around ourselves and as responsible grownups you behave well as guest of course! This pictures inspired many people to measure their own head to these skulls, so it is partly educational and the biggest part was just entertainment for us.
After the museum trip we went to the University for Architecture for the lunch and the rest of the afternoon program. To bad that there were only 50 cheese snacks and about a hundred hungry students. To keep us entertained the organisation arranged some music from the region. Some people loved it and would probably bought their CDs if only the band members knew what kind of modern technology CD would be. We weren't that enthusiastic..... After the music about a 100 more foreign exchange students came to the University (also hungry and complaining about the lack of food). Because by now everybody was complaining they decided to continue with the wine tasting (?!).
After the wine tasting the program said that it was time to (lunch??? No) speed-dating, just to get to know each other. To bad this also took really long to organize so I decided to go home to do some work and EAT since it was around 6pm and I hadn't eat anything accept a bowl of cornflakes at 8 in the morning.
But now I have some time so I will updated you about what is going on here. Last weekend my flatmates and me had a pizza party. The only downside on this good news was that they bought 2 vegetarian cheese pizzas for me. That I had to
eat! No sharing and no saving it for the next day!But after 8 slices I could only smile, and sit.....sorry 2 whole pizzas are just to much for my (small) stomach.
Luckily after a hour or so I could move again and our Brazilian guest wanted to teach us some basic salsa moves. Salsa is nice, unless Antonio starts dancing. So after we all got over our Antonio-shock we just played the latin top 40 and some other South American hits to bad I only knew Shakira, some 80 hits and of course Gloria Estefan. But after that I did play a few ABBA songs so you didn't hear me complain!
For the Saturday I signed up for a Catalan Culture day. Christina and Karime decided to join me because there was wine tasting on the program. The morning started a little bit chaotic, we were suppose to be at a museum at 11 o'clock. The only small problem was we weren't expected, so people got a bit nervous: "what are you people doing here" "why are you here" "Catalan Culture Day", "no doesn't ring a bell". In the end everything turned out to be arranged by someone who talked to the organization for 15 minutes and kept saying: "no idea, no I didn't send those emails" "but here is a print out of the registration mail, with your name here" "No I did not send that". That is what you get if you put middle aged woman with a short term memory in charge!
The day started at a science museum, the majority of the visitors were kids so our guide gave us a tour in 'toddler Spanish/Catalan' so even I could follow it word for word what he was talking about :D
After the guided tour we could wander around ourselves and as responsible grownups you behave well as guest of course! This pictures inspired many people to measure their own head to these skulls, so it is partly educational and the biggest part was just entertainment for us.
After the museum trip we went to the University for Architecture for the lunch and the rest of the afternoon program. To bad that there were only 50 cheese snacks and about a hundred hungry students. To keep us entertained the organisation arranged some music from the region. Some people loved it and would probably bought their CDs if only the band members knew what kind of modern technology CD would be. We weren't that enthusiastic..... After the music about a 100 more foreign exchange students came to the University (also hungry and complaining about the lack of food). Because by now everybody was complaining they decided to continue with the wine tasting (?!).After the wine tasting the program said that it was time to (lunch??? No) speed-dating, just to get to know each other. To bad this also took really long to organize so I decided to go home to do some work and EAT since it was around 6pm and I hadn't eat anything accept a bowl of cornflakes at 8 in the morning.
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