Journal Entry July 14 5:58 pm

July 14th 5:58 pm

I didn´t teach today so it was a pleasantly short day, but I decided to get my ticket to France today so it was interesting. I tried to order it online but it was really difficult to understand. Instead of buying online and putting my card number out into the giant void that is the internet I went down to the Estacio de França. After some bad Spanish questions by me I got to the window I needed and bought a ticket to Toulouse for about half the price of what it was online.

The people here make a serious amount of money off of the tourists, they charge double for tickets if they are bought from the English link of the train company´s website and often the vendors will add made-up taxes to sales and fresh food sellers will charge you full price and give you old or bad produce.

I feel bad for Luna, she is not feeling well and she has a dance class she has to go to. She wore herself out cheering on Sunday night during the futbol match and now she is sick. Maybe it´s a good thing that I have been going to bed early.

Once again I have been debating if I should make myself stay here. I think I will ask everyone on facebook if there is anyone who really wants to come to Barcelona to stay with me. I really think I could handle it and maybe even enjoy it if I had someone else here to do things with and talk to.

I think maybe I will find a non-profit job to get some experience to put on my Grad school applications and pay off loans. I don´t like the idea of living so far from family but I think it´s what I need to do. It´s time for me to grow up, and I think coming to Barcelona has really helped prepare me for it.