Apparently...

...I live in Chinatown. Chinatown of Barcelona. There are a bunch of Chinese people who have shops and stuff in my neighborhood. I like it because shopping in our neighborhood is much cheaper.

So Saturday, we just kind of walked around near Las Ramblas where everything was super expensive and Analise suggested that we go walk around one of our neighborhoods. So we headed near me and Sylvia's place, which is how we discovered that it is in fact full of Chinese people. We went to the supermarket to buy cava, which is Spanish champagne and it was only 1.75€ and is delicious. I also bought some chips which are tomato and red onion flavored...so tasty. And some fiber sticks, because it seemed like a good idea. After shopping, we went home and had rice with this wonderful red sauce, a hamburger patty with cheese, a fried egg, salad, and potato salad (its not really potato salad, its like boiled potatos with a spicy sauce. They're Sylvia's new favorite) with fruit for dessert. Everything was delicious as usual.

After dinner, we got ready to go out, and I finally unpacked. Analise and Holly came over and we downed 2 bottle of cava on the balcony before going to Oveja Negra. When Sylvia was opening one of the bottles, she popped it so that the cork went across the street. We finally got to Oveja Negra and planned to go over to a club, RazzMaTazz (I think that's how its spelled but I'm not sure). At Oveja Negra we drank some more sangria. I had sat down with some Spaniards who were nice and telling me about the city and I went to go get some more sangria and keep talking to them and I was intercepted by these Brazilian guys (not Rubens, I haven't found him again) and never made it back to the Spaniards. I looked for them later but they had left. Our group that was going to the club left without us so we thought why not go with the Brazilians. We never made it anywhere because the group was so big; we just ended up loitering on the streets at 4A. We decided we didn't want to go anywhere anyways and headed home to go to sleep, especially considered how drunk we were it was probably the best idea we've had so far.

I passed out right away until like 1P. We wanted to go to the beach so we slowly got ready and finally left at like 3:30. Somehow we didn't get there until 5. The beach is beautiful. It is so much cleaner and nicer. However, there are people (mostly Chinese and Pakistani people) who come and try and sell you things like beer, chips, and massages. We declined. It was kind of chilly so we only stayed like an hour and a half but are definitely going back on Wednesday. We came back from the beach and took showers and naps. Dinner was chicken soup, meatballs with potatoes and peas in a yellow sauce, salad, and more potato salad with flan and whip cream for dessert. After dinner, I tried to study some but fell asleep doing so and went to bed at like 10:30. We had class this morning and now we're going to have a spanish style lunch and do some more shopping in Chinatown. Hopefully it will warm up soon!