sleep? sleep is overrated

i met my advisor from UCF today. we met at a bar near his place with his wife who is also a teacher at UCF and grew up here in barcelona. i got to hear all the juicy details of what she thinks about how much it's changed! she said it's never been so bad with all the pickpockets and people coming up with plans to ask for money. the saddest thing she told me was about the Muslim women who take babies and drug them and then sit outside with them. they are unconscious and therefore quiet and look so peaceful and you want to help them because it is a poor homeless mother with her poor little child. how sick!

they also brought a boy who was once a foreign exchange student in highschool in orlando and was a student of the wife. he is from Seville and said if i ever go there i can call him up and he will show me around. i'm in luck because that is one of the places i want to visit! he said he wants to go to UCF to do a Masters degree.

this weekend i went with Rita to Tibidabo, which is a huge huge magnificent church on top of the tallest mountain in Catalunya. it is surrounded by an amusement park that was opened in 1899! how cool, a ferris wheel and roller coaster on the side of a mountain that overlooks the entire city!

you can see all the way from the beach across to more mountains on the other side

it is the biggest thing i've ever seen and the inside is so colorful!

saturday night i went out with a friend to the beach to hang out before we went to one of my other friend's apartment on la rambla and he threw a birthday party for one of the girls from New York. it was fun! there were tons of people there and it was so crowded because his flat wasn't very big of course, but we still had a good time ;) i don't know where all his roommates were but obviously not home because it was pretty loud...