LIVING in BARCELONA **Note** If this is the first post you are reading...wait! I'd recommend starting at the beginning, the post dated July 2007 in Mauritania. The story reads better in chronological order! Highlights so far: reuniting with my macbook, playing competitive volleyball again, discovering the "ethnic" part of town with cheap-er beer and delicious falafal sandwiches, bike commuting in BCN and surroundings, my inner brunette surfacing, the espresso machine in the kitchen of the apartment I live in, introducing brownies and pancakes to my host family, studying French with a French girl in exchange for English conversation Poopy so far: missing friends etc. in the States, VISA complications, ironing sheets (pointless, right?), being told at age 24 that I need to make my bed and straighten my room as an example to the children (an
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