Blogs from Sitges, Catalonia, Spain, Europe - page 2

It's war, war! WAR!!!!! When I arrived at my fourth day of Esplai sailing camp, we were preparing for WAR!!! Two of the instructors participated in this activity. They split the kids into two groups. My group went with the instructor named Pablo, and the other instructor (I don't remember her name), took the other group of kids. Each group made a banner, and the instructors hoisted them onto the mast of the sailboats. Then we had lunch, preparing for the grand war. This is how the game (war) worked. Everybody put t-shirts over their live-vests. One person in each group was elected to be the 'king'. Each group would get in a sailboat and toss water in water-bottles at the people on the other boat. The boats would fight each other on the waters near ... read more

Yesterday evening, after I wrote my previous blog post, my mom and I had a spanish lesson with Bibiana, a friend of Shawn. After that, my mom, Teja, and I had dinner and went to bed. Today was the second day of the Esplai beach activity camp. The first thing we did at the camp today was kayaking. I was in a Kayak with 2 other kids and a camp instructor. We had a lot of fun on the Kayaks, and there were countless water-fights. After our Kayak got back to the port, we had lunch. Then, we went to the beach. We swam, played football (soccer), and did body surfing. Everybody had a blast. Literally, people were blasting each other with water. Then we went back to the port. The camp instructors split the kids ... read more

Okay, I will start this blog with where we left off last time. Yesterday was probably the most exciting day yet. Basically, nothing happened until around 5:30. I spent my day at home, read my book, did yoga with my mom, and relaxed. At around 5:30, one of the yoga teachers from a yoga studio around here came to pick my mom and I up. Her name was Kirana, and she and her kid Noah were going to a festival called 'la fiesta de espuma' which meant 'the foam party'. It was in a town called Sant Pere de Ribes. Kirana, her kid, my mom, and I went to this festival, and it was one of the most amazing things I had ever seen. Now, I was expecting a bunch of bubbles floating around, but that ... read more

This is the last day in Spain for Lynn and Mike, so we are going to drive hard in order to get to the beach in good time. Lynn claims she has no "dog in this fight" so there are no expectations or sites we need to stop at...let's just take the shortest route. OMG is this beautiful...started by traveling along the Rio Cinca through a tight mountain pass. Will flowers were blooming on the rock faces. Small villages on each mountaintop. Then came the turquoise lakes again...Embalse de Mediano and then Embalse de Grado. Mile after mile of amazing hillsides of red formations from the erosion and the color of the wayer can never be conveyed in pictures. This was an unexpect delight... Got looking at the travel guides again and Lynn noticed a write ... read more

Le carnaval étant maintenant terminé, les costumes sont rangés dans les placards, les confettis sont ramassés par pelleté des rues, et les gens se remettent des nombreuse fiestas.. Comme bien des pays, l'Espagne possède sa part de fêtes associées au fameux Carnaval du mois de Février. Le plus connu, reste certainement celui se déroulant au Brésil.. (bien sûre, sans oublier le Carnaval de Québec ;). Ici, donc, pendant plus ou moins une semaine, les gens se déguisent, défilent dans les rues, fond du bruit, et.. sont heureux, tous simplement. (Quasi l'Halloween pour les grands, pendant 1 semaine;) Ainsi, tout bonnement, un matin de la semaine, en direction de l'Université, j'ai croisé une foule ainsi festive, ajoutant une petite saveur piquante à ma journée. Et puis, comme il me démangeait de vivre davantage l'ambiance du Carnaval, c'est ... read more