la ultima cenaaaaaa

quite a busy week i had! i gave my "final" presentation in my advertising class. it's not over until January but some of the girls have to leave this week since they are only here for a semester so i did the project with them and got it out of the way. i think we did pretty well. we had to make a whole marketing campaign for Dunkin' Donuts. it was actually fun, i made a couple ads that would serve as billboards. and i realized i would really really love to do that for a living.

Wednesday was a birthday of one of the exchange students and we met at a bar that had one euro beers! quite a good deal. it was a small bar and there were about 20 of us and we took up half of it, but it was so much fun. and the birthday girl had gotten these chocolates but she didn't like them and we all tried them and nobody liked them so we started giving them to the bartenders and they thought we were so nice hahah. but they didn't like when they found a pile of half-eaten chocolates on the table... they were a present for the girl and they were from the "Middle East" but she didn't know where.

last night we all went to this place called La Fonda near La Rambla for "the last supper" of all the exchange students. it was probably the best paella i've had here! and calamari, i think i've become addicted. i get it everywhere i go. it's quite a strange food to become obsessed with, no? but maybe cause we're on the Mediterranean it's just so good. i think we were there for like four hours. it was great! and some of the kids who were leaving had brought these spanish flags and they had everyone sign them and write messages on them.
here's what happened there:
-i was named "the hippie"
-i was told by a French boy i had to sit by him and speak "American" because he wishes he was American and he loves to listen to us talk (????)
-that same boy also said he loves American culture. i responded with, "we have no culture" (compared to here! come on!)
-i was told that i can come to Leon in France and stay for free and i am very excited
-i somehow wound up next to the New York girl who was never very friendly to me, but of course after enough sangria she wanted to be my best friend. but i still didn't forget how cold she was before
-we were the last people to leave the restaurant (i guess they close early for Barcelona?) and even after, we proceeded to stand around right outside the door talking and taking pictures