Sept. 6th

After I got out of the car, I felt like I was in Medieval times. Everything is so close together that it doesn't seem like the streets can hold everyone plus the cars. The buildings of the plaza near the hotel were made in year 0. The “barrio” or neighborhood that this is in, is the Gothic Quarter. This is the only part of the city where none of the streets are in perfect blocks/manzanas, they kinda veer off in all sorts of directions, which is really fun to get lost in, because there are so many "hole-in-the-wall" type places. I just had to remember what direction the street Las Ramblas was in or where the plaza was near the hotel. Las Ramblas was a cool street, but a bit too crowded especially with tourists, so you know that everything is pretty expensive. I mostly wandered around with Evan and Zoe until dinnertime. There is a group of seven of us: Mandy, Natalia, Evan, Charli (a girl), Zoe,  Danielle, and me. Robin Ragan is the director and Stephanie Roger is her assistant. We went out for dinner where I had a salt cod, and it had it’s tail and head...very different from how we eat fish in the U.S. and there were a ton of bones!