Is that the Sun rising?

Today’s Contemporary European City class was pushed back until 2:30pm because Kathrin, our professor, was aware of the Carnival festivities that were taking place last night…more like this morning haha.

So Spanish Carnival…

It was definitely an experience that I am glad to have had, but do I have to do it again, not really. The shear amount of people that was concentrated in one single area at one time last night was the most I have ever seen. No theme park (Disney World, Universal Studios, the fair etc.) can even come close to containing as many people as Carnival did last night. There were countless moments when I could not even move because there were that many people; everyone seemed happy though, not a single sole seemed bothered by the overabundance of people…except me haha. As I stated in the blog post yesterday Gerado, William, and myself went with the Spanish students here at the dorm to Sitges (the city where the events took place). The dorm rented a bus for the residents so the three of us decided to join the “locals” for the night; Gerado is fluent in Spanish but William and I are not as savvy with the language. It was actually a lot of fun trying to converse with everyone in Spanish (luckily the majority of them spoke some level of English). Everyone had a costume, it was actually an “unofficial” rule in order to be allowed on the bus, the most popular costumes where Mario/Luigi, cows, and BANANAS? Gerado and I were pirates, his was more of a “Jack Sparrow” pirate and mine was similar to a Spanish Conquistador, while William was a clown! We saw the end of the masquerade parade, which featured some very oddly dressed “ladies”, I’ll let you figure out why I put ladies in quotes haha. We came across an Irishman named Liam who was also studying in Barcelona for the semester…it was a bit of a relief to be able to speak English with some new people. I tried my British accent on him and he said, and I quote “that’s the best English accent I’ve ever heard from an American”; he stated that I would have to try it on a true Englishman but in either case I was happy I sounded convincing! Unfortunately we lost him while we were walking from the beach and we never found him again…thanks again to the amount of people!

I thought that I had reached my limits in terms of late night escapades with going to the club Razmatazz a month ago…I was terribly wrong. My “night” did not end until 7am this morning when I finally laid my head down to go to sleep! We did not get back to the dorm until after 6am, when I finally turned off the lights in the room I noticed that the sun was coming up!

Studio desk critiques tomorrow wish me luck! Buenos Noches.

Carnival.....