I went to Barcelona a few weeks ago too and never wrote about it! I have a group of friends from Elon studying in Barcelona and also all my friends from Elon studying in Europe all met in Barcelona for a few days’ reunion. We even had visitors from the States. It was a blast to see everyone. Anyway, Barcelona is SUCH a cool city. But there were both good and bad parts to it. I’ll start with the good. The architecture there is absolutely amazing. I loved the buildings; it has a very edgy urban feel but I really liked it. Unfortunately I got really sick my second day there, so I didn’t really get to do all the sight-seeing I wanted 
But I am going back there for a day in November because I am flying out of Barcelona to go to Prague; so hopefully then I can get some sight-seeing done. Anyway, there is a lot artistic influence from the famous Spanish architect Gaudi. His style of architecture is unlike any other. There are pretty much no straight lines and he uses a lot of color. So, as you can imagine, this makes for very interesting results! But the results are amazing. He designed and started building the famous Cathedral in Barcelona called La Sagrada Familia. It is still under construction and won’t be finished until at least the year 2026. It is a very unique cathedral. I would like to go back to it when it is finished!
Now for the bad. The Barcelonian people aren’t necessarily the nicest of all people. In fact, I actually had a run in with a man who told me that I was a stupid “chino” which is Spanish for “Chinese.” I corrected him and told him that actually, I was not Chinese, but Filipino and Spanish and was a student studying SPANISH in Sevilla. This is when he told me something along the lines of “Oh you’re Filipino? That’s cool. We used to own you guys.” Needless to say, this guy was a jackass (sorry for the language). But what can you do? You’ll find people like that all over the world. I’ll just file it under my “Cultural Differences Experience” folder and carry on.
Sorry for the short post, but I’ll write something again about Barce when I go back again!
