We started out onsunday by heading up the funicular (right by our hotel) to Montjuic, one of the hills in Barcelona, and home to the events of the 1992 summer olympics. Now, not one of our students was alive for that (ugh!) but they really enjoyed seeing the stadium. And while in there I happened to overhear some other people talking about Medford, Wisconsin. Turns out there was a group of about 8 of them in town for work. Marathon Cheese is apparently buying a n...

Here are some pictures from our tour and our day of Antoni Gaudí! I decided to add them into the original blog entry to get some of the commentary near them just in case anyone wanted to connect some of it. So unfortunately for at least a couple of days (or maybe longer), this blog will be an unillustrated blog. My stupid memory card reader decided to break in the slot I need for my camera's card. Pins going every which way - not good. And since I didn't bri...

Although we expected a nice sunny day, we got, once again, a cold, grey and windy day. So, our plan to start slow became a plan to start monumentally slowly, organizing the suitcases and what not, and then we still headed up to one of the nearby beaches to just check it out. Turns out the one we went to was kind of a surfer town, completely devoid of surfs in such a ****** day. So we were back to our good old local mall by 4 pm, had a really good late lunch and w...

Well, to my Spanish home, at least. Today Jeanne and I actually got out of bed before 9 am and took the bus over to San Sebastián, the city I did my study abroad in (gulp!) 15 years ago. I have only been back once since, very briefly, in 2003. And by very briefly I mean one morning, that was it. So it was great to see the town again. As you can see from the pictures, it is one of the most beautiful places on earth. I got to walk back down the street I lived ...

That's right, this 35 year old got mistaken for a student today. And she will take it. And the 5.50 € it saved her! Today we met up with those girls that had been having problems to give them a little time to relax and connect with us. We also met up with our one boy again and his host brother. We headed over to the Guggenheim and actually went in this time! Jeanne went to the front of the group to inquire about student pricing, told them there were 3 stude...