So this last weekend was AWESOOOOMMMMEEEE (cue singsongy voice). Katie Schalk and her friend Natasha came to Barcelona, and it was a wonderful 3 days of booze, falafel and Gaudi. I had SUCH a good time with them. It's just so weird to all of a sudden be able to talk and talk and talk...it's really nice, actually, cause most of the time I have no one to talk to over here. We ran around and saw a lot of the sights, and went out on a pub crawl on saturday night that kept us out till 4 in the morning. The pub crawl was only 10 euros, and that included a free power hour of beer and sangria at a bar, then 4 bars, then a club at the end. We also got free shots at every bar. Needless to say, we got hammered. We were all pretty proficient at slamming down the drinks in the first hour...i'm pretty sure I had around 7 beers, while Katie and Natasha gulped down the sangria (ugh...I don't know how they did it). None of us spent any money the entire rest of the night, which was our goal. Drinks and club entry in Barcelona are crazy expensive, so thankfully we were cheap drunks.
We went around and saw all of the Gaudi architecture. His stuff makes Barcelona such an amazing city. How amazing would it be to see that stuff everyday? And why do we not have any living architects or artists that create such jaw-dropping integrated city designs? Nowadays, it seems to be so much more about shock value...like people have run out of ideas on how to change the art world, so they resort to the gross-out factor, or just abrasive works that "challenge" the viewer. I'm all for challenging the viewer, but it can be done in a way that doesn't make them want to throw up.
Katie, Natasha and I parted ways on monday night...i've been alone since, which sucks. After having such a fun weekend with people, it's actually harder to be alone again.
p.s. the drawing of them is when we were at Park Guell. It was nice to draw someone that wasn't me for once.
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