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Summer is here :)

3 weeks till swimming...

Updates: 3 Jobs next week so very busy! Including one for Hong Kong! Big time. Possibility of going to Madrid for Easter... and agents talking about going to Greece for a couple months coming up... Let's keep out fingers crossed for that :)

Other news... walked around for about 7 hours yesterday, feet and legs dying. Ate at an amazing mexican restaurant today... more on different post. Went to the best bar in Barcelona called Dow Jones... that will need an entire editorial about how awesome it is.... And the women who lives below my window bought a new chicken for her chicken coup... yes you read right, and if they weren't noisy enough this new animal is the most obnoxious creature on the face of the Earth. Seriously.... and he fights with the dog next door. And all day they go back and forth playing the game "Who can ruin the neighborhood the fastest". I think the woman did it on purpose because she wants a better apartment and aside from killing someone this is the only way to get rid of a person... This stupid chicken will not shut up. I'm trying to figure out with google how to solve this problem. Any ideas?

Picture: Boardwalk.

PICTURES!!!

SO excited about my pictures that I just got from the first photoshoot, these aren't the official pictures, just a sneak peak....

Wurd to the Mothers

So I just wanted to let everyone know that I love my mom.

And that talking with her brings joy and light into my life.

I like that my mom thinks that if I don't wear glasses my eye is going to fall out. Atrophy.... google that sh...t

She is the only one who uses the phrase "Mega Stupid" and is cool...

Be jealous...

Good Eats: Diver

Diver is this WONDERFUL turkish restaurant I've found here....

The staff is so nice, and the place is really clean.

I've eaten there twice now and will be back.

No pictures of food however, the price is around 5 euros for a HUGE kabob and a "coca-cola"....

Location is the second alley way on the right hand side of La Ramblas about 5 doors down on the right. I promise to update this with more details. :)

Weekend!

I'm sorry for not having many posts lately I haven't really been home much. But I just finished having my tea and biscuits and so now I can sit and write (yes I have tea time everyday)

Okay so Wednesday the 17th I had a photoshoot with a lovely photographer named Mireia Grau who was really young (20 something) and the sweetest person ever :) We did some photos for her book that were spring with lots of light and I was pretending to be a porcelain doll I think they will be so cool when I get them. We basically ate bugles and sang along to Hilary Duff songs with her super flamboyant stylist assistant "George" but I could call him "Sandy"....

I got a free newspaper today that I attempted to translate.

Headline "Chaos Finally Get's it's Opportunity"

It was an article about the snow. Apparently there were 173 car crashes and it cost the city 33,000 something euros.

It was an inch of slush....

Anyways, for those of you who read my facebook I was scheduled to go to Rome for the 13-16th which didn't happen and was kind of a bummer but it turned out fine. I'll get my chance....

Instead I got to attend the 1st Anniversary of the Dom Perignon Champaign Party at CDLC a supper club on the beachfront. It was pretty amazing. I got to go with a group of my friends to a private tasting of Dom Perignon Champagnes. I think we tried about 4 different kinds and they were all served with delicious food that was made "specifically to compliment the taste of the champaign" which actually sounded more like "Esta comida se hace para comlpementar el sabor de la campina" because our "tour guide" through the tastes was spanish.

After words we joined the rest of the "club goers" to some dancing and I got to spend about 2 hours in the DJ booth spinning with DJ Camilo Franco who is a pretty cool guy we became friends a couple weeks ago when I was insulting his music choices and apparently he's pretty big in Spain (because he plays terrible music and spanish people go crazy over it) However I managed to get way more people dancing then he did with my DJing skillz which may or may not have BLOWN EVERYONE'S MIND.

In other Good News , my friend Beth O. from MN who is a year older then me whom I met at a photoshoot last time I was here is back in SPAIN! Whoo hoo. She's been in MN visiting her family. She's been living in Spain with her boyfriend for about a year now? Maybe a year and a half so we have great MN bonding time and she's AMAZING. Super chill and laid back and basically just awesome. So basically haven't been here because I'm either with her or Rachel or Francesco or working. It's busy but a really good busy :)

Pictures: 1. Picture of me demonstrating the proper way of pouring the golden liquid... 2. The horribly boring tour guide to our senses... My senses were not impressed.

The Blizzard

We had a blizzard today in Barcelona. And no. Not the delicious frozen treat from Dairy Queen.

And actual blizzard.

EXCUSE ME?! Here I was thinking it was going to be almost laying out on the beach weather in about two weeks and I'm trucking through the snow on a way to a casting.

So funny thing about Spain, it never snows. And like ALL places in the world where it never snow, no matter how much snow there is it turns the place into COMPLETE chaos.

There was at most during the day an inch of slush.... not snow people SLUSH.

The power went out everywhere, cell phones weren't working and shut down because they were so full... thousands of police everywhere. Ambulances and emergency vehicles were zooming around by the hundreds.... So many car accidents on every street corner.

People were freaking out running around with their stupid umbrellas. UMBRELLAS.

I felt like grabbing every screaming woman that ran by and slapping her in the face. "Pull. *slap* YOURSELF. *slap* together. *slap*"

It was really ridiculous.

But it was also amazing on a positive note. I went down to the beach and it was so cool. There was so much snow, huge waves crashing, thunder and lightning from the storm... I don't think I will see something again like that in my lifetime and it was really incredible.

Pictures: pretty much self explanatory....

Tips

Today I took a nap.... but it was one of those really hard naps where you wake up really disoriented... I looked at the clock and it read 2142 and I freak out because I didn't know if it was the year or the time...

I went to the gym for another 4 hours today... and I went to a restaurant that I'm not going to tell you about because it was some of the worst service I've ever had and there was garbage in my coffee.

One thing to comment on with Spain is that they have TERRIBLE customer service. Especially and restaurant because they don't tip in Spain, so the person really has to care about their job. Because the truth is it's about the food here and not the service and the wait staff makes the same amount of money no matter how they treat you. I'm a firm believer in tips... because I think being treated good at a restaurant is important, it's part of the experience of dining out.

Good Eats: Papabubble

Okay so this is TECHNICALLY not a restaurant but it is an AMAZING candy store...

They are actually called carmel artisans and they make amazing homemade candies right in the shop and you can watch them doing it.... it's like artwork, some of their stuff. So beautiful and of course delicious :) I got a monkey which is a tube of random types of candies so next time I go I will know which kind to grab....

Check out their website they have places all over the world like Tokyo and New York...

http://www.papabubble.com/

Barcelona Address:

C/ Ample, 28
08002 Barcelona, Spain

Bowling, Steam and my 'christening' into being a true Barcelonian

Today was pretty fantastic as far as days go....

First start to my day was meeting Rachel at the gym.... we were there for about 3 hours hanging out in the pool, infrared sauna, turkish spa... oh and there was a little working out too! Haha, we got to try that new Power Plate... which is all the rage for working out now I guess.... it just made me laugh the whole time because it was tickling me, I got glared at because I wasn't taking the 'burn' seriously enough.

After the intense workout we walked around Barcelona and ended up at a street market. Using my amazing bartering skills we got big containers of fruit and some coconut smoothies that were AMAZING for pretty cheap. No pictures but I will be back, yes you delicious coconut smoothie... I will be back for you....

For dinner Rachel and I met Francesco at SOLO pizza and it was AMAZING.... spicy sausage pizza and tiramisu :)

Then we decided to go bowling with Mateo and Christina and on the way there

I FINALLY GOT TO RIDE A MOTORCYCLE IN SPAIN!

It was the baptism into being truly European and was terrifying.

Francesco kept doing wheelies and speeding up and weaving in and out of traffic.... I was half laughing and half crying from fear the whole time. Ugh. But overall super amazing and I had a blast especially because I didn't die I can say that....

Bowling was great too.... We had a wager going on the game... whoever won got whatever they decided.

Francesco's choice was us spending a Saturday dressed up in ridiculous uniforms passing out flyers for Solo Pizza.

Rachel and I decided that we would get to go to Tarragon to the HUGE amusement park there for the ENTIRE day and get whatever we want there...

It was an extremely tense game.... I was winning the WHOLE time with 3 strikes and 2 spares I thought I was unstoppable... but then tragically during the last couple frames Francesco came through with 2 back to back strikes and a spare which KILLED me... however during frame 10 I had the opportunity to win. First try... STRIKE! Second try 6! Oh no!!!! and third ball.... I thought I could pummel the 4 stupid pins clustered into the middle and I tripped and got a gutter ball.

So Rachel and I lost and will be handing out fliers 2 Saturdays from now. Feel free to stop by and laugh at me :(

Pictures: 1. If you don't have converse... you aren't one of us. 2. Bowling ally.... little blurry (clearly taken after all the beer) 3. Estrella beer... the 'Coors' of the spanish world...

ANTI-Shag

I'm being firm and taking a stand.

Shag does not make a good bath rug. I feel like I'm drowning a muppet every time I step out of the shower.

Side note - Burnt orange = tacky.

It's 2010. Shag should not be available.

Done venting.