I've had a really strange day today, because it all started with my alarm clock telling me that it was 3:47pm and that meant I'd completely missed both introductions to the course and the beginning of the afternoon session, not to mention letting people down because I said I would meet them at half 9. I'd really annoyed myself, so naturally went to tell Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/kallyblueeyes), only to find that my alarm clock had been lying to me and it was only 8:50am. I double checked with my watch and surely enough I had 10 minutes to get ready and leave the flat so that I wasn't rushing to meet the guys. It turned out that I had enough time to buy a drink or two, and buy myself a pad from a shop local to their house. Of course I'd only had enough time to grab a nectarine on the way out of the flat so I was still a little hungry, but decided it wouldn't do me any harm. I turned onto Conny and Chris' street just as they walked out of their building. A job well done considering the panic of the morning.
We waited a few minutes for Tom to join us and then set off for the Campus Barri Vell; which we learned means Campus of the old neighbourhood. After less than 10 minutes, Tom announces that he's hungry and we should stop at a bench for some breakfast that he had brought. Lovely fresh bread stick with cheese and ham. Breakfast on the Gottish guy. :) (Tom is from Germany but studies in Scotland, hence the new nickname!) We were soon on our way feeling full and ready to take on the Spanish introduction; which was brave of the guys since they know very little Spanish. Having taken on the Spanish introduction and ridiculed Tom for not having a health insurance card, we stayed on for the English introduction. We noticed that the English introduction was less thought out and things were mentioned several times, but the general gist was put across to the room.
After this, the guys abandoned us to who knows where so Conny and I decided to see if we could register for the Catalan Course and get our temporary Student Cards in order to connect to the Tinterwebz. Quite cool that our pictures were taken with a webcam. We took our cards and our UdG folders (they're blue!) and went to sit in Conny's flat for a bit since we had about an hour to waste. We glammed her flat up a bit with Flags. Makes me wish I had a bigger Welsh flag here though. Maybe I'll get one for France.
One thing to know about Girona, is that it's really hilly. Streets go up, streets go down. Steps go up, steps go down. It seems we go up and down with them; several times. If it;s not been on the way to the campus then it's been because of the tour, and then there's the walking we choose to do of our own accord! We may well walk ourselves thin :).
The tour of Girona was really quite interesting but even though it was in English, I didn't quite get all of it because my feet were sore. The parts I did get were that it took over 400 years to build the cathedral in Girona, and it boasts being the only Gothic construction to have no columns inside, with a width of 23 metres. The Jewish quarter of Girona, which isn't far from the Cathedral is currently the best preserved Jewish quarter in the whole of Spain. It was the second largest Jewish quarter in Catalonia and the most powerful too. Girona is also referred to as the mother of Israel by some people because of the part that it played in the past.
Enough of the history lesson anyhow. If you would like to know the plan for tomorrow and the towel that I managed to buy, feel free to go and watch my vlog. If not, that's okay...but you'll never know what the towel is!
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