1st day of Classes and FLAMENCO!

Today was just the orientation for all of the classes...I am very excited about what each course will have to offer this semester. We already have started our studio project which consists of adding an "intervention" to an existing site within one of Barcelona's suburban blocks. More to come on the project later! The resident professor Kathrine seems very nice and helpful...she stated that we will be doing LOTS of walking throughout the field studies course. Tomorrow I don't have class until 2:30pm (normally I would not have class until later on that evening but one professor Kathrine had to move our "block" to Tuesday for this week).

Did a little more strolling around the city today...found Barcelona's version of Best Buy...FNAC...haha (I have no idea what that stands for). All of the DVD's music, etc were in Spanish/Catalan. Set up my budget for spending over here...hopefully I will not over spend!

Made a meal tonight for dinner: stuffed tortellini (cheese,herbs/spices, ham) with sauce! IT WAS SURPRISINGLY GOOD.

Was also able to check another thing off of my "to do list" for Spain and that was visit an authentic FLAMENCO! This is almost like salsa and the tango but more closely related to tap dancing in the US. It was a very very very great show...the talent and endurance that the performers must have is unmeasurable! The girls were also very pretty...just thought I would add that in there. I forgot my camera but I was able to grab a few post cards from the venue:

And lastly my new studio space for the next 4 months...it is actually kind of a nice place. The studio space was an old horse stable that has been converted into the studio. It has a "dungeon" feel to it.

Might try to watch some of BCS game tonight (well actually it will be morning for me)!!