Week 1

Hello again!

After some careful thought  (and unintentional input from friends) about this blogging channel, I decided that whilst I want to update you all about what it going on; I don't want to pressure you into having to read it everyday because that can be a bore for everybody. You can therefore expect to see a blog every Sunday, without fail. This way; I won't tire myself with having to update every day and think of quirky things that have happened, when really, nothing has!

I don't really have any funny stories to share; or at least not as many as if I were back home in Bangor, but I will do my best to entertain you over here :)

This week has been like any other week in a new place in that we've been exploring the city and Barcelona too, and just getting used to meeting new people and speaking the right language. I've had a few slip ups with the language when I've either tried to speak in Spanish and come out with French, or tried to speak in Catalan and come out with Spanish. The other day I went to buy stamps; and for me the worst word to remember in any language is in fact stamps because you always need to know that word and I always forget it. However, this time much to my surprise I remembered the word but forgot completely how to ask how much the stamps were...so I had to stand there like an idiot with my Spanish dictionary, probably looking as though I knew nothing about the language! Learning curves all around.

Today was the national day of Catalonia so they celebrated their independence and I have been told that the festival was amazing. I had planned to go to the festival and get video footage for you to see but I haven't been well today, so we'll all have to go without on that. 

Barcelona is a huge city and I think it's a really beautiful place but I'm really glad that I'm not staying there. It's so big that I feel I would get lost all of the time there and that the beauty of it would fade with time for me. We're planning to go back when the weather has calmed slightly and the tourists have gone so that we can get a good look round at things that we missed or didn't have enough time to take in. 

The cathedral there is absolutely amazing but won't be finished until about 2025 if the workers carry on at their current pace. Even though it's not been finished it's such a breathtaking sight to see it. 

All that remains for me to say in this blog I think is that I may have a job soon. I'm going for an interview tomorrow to see about teaching English in a school while I'm here in Girona, and I hope that it all works out because that's what I really wanted to do here instead of the university studies. Now, hopefully I can do both and get double the experience out of being here. 

That's all for now, but remember you can hop over to my YouTube channel (StephenFrySaidSo) every Monday, Wednesday and Friday to see what else I have been up to whilst on my Year Abroad.

Thanks for reading!

Ciao x