Can I go on a strike from studio?

Yesterday our final presentation went well during CEC....Kathrin seemed to be very pleased with the work Brian and I had prepared. We received mostly positive remarks and we now know what to add and remove from our final paper for the class. As promised Kathrin invited the class to her flat (apartment) to join her and her husband Thomas for what turned out to be a very relaxing and "classy" evening. Their flat is very nice, a large majority of the furniture was actually designed by Kathrin. The interior matched them perfectly...simple yet complex taste. They also seemed to have an endless supply of Cava....


Afterwards I came back and stayed up till 3am this morning doing more studio work...hence the lack of a blog post from yesterday.


Today Jordi still seemed pleased with all of our material for the project, he began "fine tuning" everything with us today; this basically means that Mallory and I are done with the bulk of the project. Now we can focus our time and energy to really embellish our project over the next few days. This is a first for me, I'm usually stressed up to the final due date; I don't want to get too excited however because as I said before things can still change. Tomorrow is our last day of Materials Class and our final paper for that class was due today....after tomorrow I only have one more field studies class and studio!


On a side note, today I witnessed the "stereotypical" concept of the European city here in Barcelona. There was a national labor strike today in Spain and Barcelona and Madrid were obviously two of the biggest cities to have "demonstrations". The city workers who usually clean the streets twice everyday were not working today so everywhere on the street was pretty filthy...Some parts of the city seemed deserted with everything "boarded up" and closed. There also seemed to be a larger frequency of sirens. I stayed in and did work after studio but I can still imagine some of the chaos that probably ensued today.