Day 5
Friday July 3rd: I awoke this morning around 8:00am I’m noticing that as the week goes on fewer and fewer people are coming to breakfast on time, or some not at all. The morning was spent in class from about 9:30 until 1:30. I felt like I was drowning in Spanish. He covered everything from pronunciation to verb conjugation in the present and preterite tenses along with accent marks in words and even a little bit of direct and indirect object pronouns. We then had lunch which consisted of something that isn’t coming to mind right now. I think it might have been another form of Paella that we had earlier. After lunch, Nate, Paul and I headed into Barcelona for the afternoon. Paul found a record shop in the gothic quarter that caught his attention and he wanted to go back, while Nate and I headed toward the Camp Nou, the FC Barcelona stadium. We got off the train at a station called Barcelona Sants(pictured in last post). This is Barcelona’s main train hub for the city. Every train in the city goes through this station. Needless to say it was more than a little crazy. We found our way out and headed in the general direction that we thought the stadium was in. With a little help from our map we found the stadium. It was huge. We made our way inside the complex and got our tickets for the tour.
We were able to walk through all three tiers of the stadium, see the press room, even the small church for the teams before they come onto the field pictured here:
The whole experience was really cool. At the end of the tour there was a museum with old soccer jerseys and biographies of the current players and most of the history of the team. this is an old Jersey:
this is the Current Jersey (apology for them being sideways)
Lionel Messi is only 2 months older than I am and the best player in the world right now. As I walked out into the stadium in the middle tier I looked down and noticed that the floor wasn’t made of concrete anymore. The floor that I was standing on was marble. Also, upon closer inspection of the seats in that section I noticed that the chairs were covered in leather. Futbol is a big deal. The only disappointment on the day was the fact that the field wasn’t there. Instead there was a gigantic stage from the U2 concert yesterday and the day before. I was hoping to be able to see the field but I guess no such luck. Also, as we were walking out of the stadium we passed a section where I suppose that they were collecting the kegs from the night before because there was an organized pile of 3x20 stack of kegs that was taller than me. After the stadium we made our way back to the train station using our map, wits, and eagle scout training (Nate is one as well). We made it safely back to the train station and figured out the chaos including our train coming on a different platform than was scheduled. We made it back to IBSTE just in time for a meal of spinach casserole that seemed more like soup and some kind of white fish. I spent the evening studying and uploading pictures. I ended the night with a headache and an early bedtime.
-Scott
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