SO today september 11th is a nationalistic holiday here. There have been alot of demonstrations and stuff going on on the street and a million Catalan flags flying proudly.

I went to a beautiful beach town on saturday called sitges. It was the epitomy of mediteranean. The sand felt like silk and the water was warm and clear. We just hung out on the beach and then walked around a bit through the winding roads.

Later that night I went to a Jazz Club with two other Americans to see this little brazillian band. they were really good. They played for awhile and everyone was dancing and getting sweaty. It was also so smokey in there that we all left feeling like our eyes were goingto explode because they stung so much. just one more thing to get used to.

The other afternoon we thought we found a poster for a show of this lebanese hip hop artisit M.I.A. who is really really good, but there was very little information on it, except the date. so long sotry short, we ended up at the venue we were pretty sure it was not knowing what time it was or how much it cost, and it ended up being some random DJ named Mia. Not MIA. so there that is.

tonight im going to a show at the opera house which should be really exciting. i ahve alot of pictures, so expect those soon. classes start tomorrow so it will be nice to get on some sort of schedule. hopefully theyll be interesting. we´ll see!