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Yesterday went to the best sandwitch place in the world again, its this little hole in the wall where all the locals go they make thier own cava and there are so many people there always it doesnt even have a sign thats how much its a locals only place, third time we have been there they know us know definately because I am a vegetarian and the whole place is about meat, haha but they always grill me up onions and bell peppers with lots of cheese on a bocadillo its so amazingly good, two sandwitchs and a whole bottle of cava is only 7 euros! after we went to the beach with some of their specail cava with us and sat out for a while with some friends me and amy went to the Santa Caterina Archaeological Interpretation Centre where you go down into the ruins and can walk in them. It was very neat! I have many pictures that I will be spending today putting up! We went out to MontJuic where there is many museums and a castle it is a huge fortress its gorgeous as we first went there to see the light fountain show I am going back tomorrow to go into the castel and museums there, but the light show was alot better than I imagined it, we went to the first show which starts at night fall, around 930. It was so cute there was more than 10,000 people there, I was almost more amazed at the amount of people than the show but it was very cute they did the show while playing disney songs in spanish which was fun to figure them out. We went out like always (I am starting to think that by the time I get back I will not want to go out to bars or clubs anymore which is sad becuase thats when I turn 21!) We went to the ice bar and it was so cold, it was minus 6 celcius but so fun you get a big snow jacket and snow gloves and a hat. Everything is made of Ice the chairs, The cups everything. We also sat on the beach and drank wine with some random people, as most of you are going to think that this is unsafe, there is so many people on the beach because the bars are literally all on the beach so everyone just goes out and sits and then goes back into the bar. It is so fun meeting all the different people and although you only meet for a very brief moment in life its like they impact you in a way cause you are on this high of traveling and exploring so everyone shares their most significant experiences or highs and lows. And everyone in the program I feel so close to as I dont like all of them haha the ones that I do we all are very close I mean we have spent 9 hours on a bus together 4 times now. You get so close to everyone to because you are all here doing the same thing so many of us have the same personalities welll... there is more like two different types of people here 1. the ones that come from really well off parents and just complain about the things they dont have here and dont really go explore anything 2. the really adventours types. Like I have met this guy who we met and in the first ten minutes were talking about going to africa together! I was telling him how I wanted to go through this program where you work in the hospitals and what not and he had done that last summer so and then we talked for awhile and now he is going to show me all his pictures and give me the low down on kenya. On one of our bus rides to madrid, we watched the Da Vinci code and much to my suprise it was very good but it was so awesome seeing all of the stuff in paris and having this crazy story line I want to go find her now too! I am getting so excited for paris. Anyways Madrid the whole reason why I am writing... really fun and exhausting. Went to Museum Naciona Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. HUGE!!! 5 stories and there temporary exhibit was Edward Steichen a really famous photographer I heard. It was very nice my favorite picture was everyone elses least probably it was this rather bland looking women with and apple placed infront of her with a couple bites out of it but she had this look of pure content and bliss by her apple I donno I liked it. But the museum... had this difital art and new media exhibit so crazy I had never thought things like were in there would be considered art and I would enjoy them for so much I was suppose to go to another museum but stayed there for 3 hours. First off the way it was set up was pitch black except for whatever you are looking at and they had really mind blowing stuff with magnets like they would move I will have to show you pictures for you to understand but there was this one room called the lisening post. where there were little tiny screens hundreds of them all over up and down and all around you and it was a chat rooms conversation recorded for four years, and they made like a show out of it I sat in there for hours feeling as though I was in the Matrix on drugs. There was a computer animated voice and Oh I dont even know how to describe this crazy feeling I got from a montomous voice and just words everywhere. They made a show out of it it wasnt just randomness but it was crazy mind altering I think the presence of how huge and dark and the music and oh crazy! and then they had this urban space staion USS which is a compressed like green house that is hooked up to the ventalation system in the buildings and it is suppose to sit on the roof and it works rather intensly and if you want to know I will explain it when I return, and then there was the normal art including a huge famous wall painting by Picasso must have been 16x50 ft. and Then I feel inlove with this strange giant painting done by Angeles Santos I have a post card of it. so different and wierd. It was huge too like the whole wall. Every museum I have been to I have bought the post card version of my favorite painting or picture. I want to try and recreate some of them when I return home. then an even HUGER 7 floor club we went to! haha seriously way insane there was even a movie club room where there is a giant screen playing a movie and its really loud and its kind of like a lounge people smoking everywhere and then the bottom floor they have dancers and the fog that sprays down on you is like nitros or something its a cooling agent of some sort it isnt nomal fog it cools your whole body instantly. but the top floor was the coolest it didnt have a roof and you lay and relaz on a giant couch and watch the stars and ah beautiful amazing place. Madrid was much more spain like if that makes any sense. I have been feeling really unhealthy haha I dont eat anything but bread and cheese practically so I went out and got lots of organic fresh 100 % juices and am taking a vitamin now. lol oh yea there was a jungle gym on the beach which was quite a delight to see after leaving the bar and we played on it. haha OHHH I have found these chips! they are balsalmic and onion chips and I LOVE THEM! and I am going to miss them so much when I leave. They have very different types of chips here the flavors and they are all made by lays. which has been intriguing and little things boggle your mind while you have nothing to do all day but enjoy yourself and explore like how different contries have very different things such as chip flavors but they are made by the same company. I dont know like they research everything to find what will sell in one place and not in another like they have bacon flavored chips here. cause they love thier stupid ham here! : ) Oh yeaaaa I went to this market SOOOOOOOO beautiful its huge!!! and they have everyhing there even brains of animals and bull testicals (groossss) and this all furthermore reinforced me not wanting to eat meat at the site of skined heads and brains being sold. but It was very neat at the same time! LOOOK at all the pictures :) miss you all and I only have 5 more days in this amazing place and it feels as though Im not ready to leave and havent seen all that I want as much as I feel like I have been away from everyone I love for so long!
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