The Land of Darkness...

Had a great time exploring the rest of Barcelona. Especially seeing all of the Antoni Gaudi buildings. Casa Batllo and La Sagrada Familia are simply amazing. Also, the camp we were teaching at was fun. Great people, good bands, and generally just a good time. It was interesting to deal with the language barrier, but I think we did a good job of showing what we wanted and keeping the talking to a minimum. I did discover that my previous discomfort in trying to use my Spanish was unrelated to the Catalan/Spanish differences and more closely related to the fact that I was an American and that we are bombing the living shit out of the rest of the world. More than one Catalonian was surprised that Sharon and I didn´t own any guns and that we didn´t care for George Bush. So, I felt we did our job, in a small way, to strengthen the Amer/Catala relations by setting them straight on the fact that some of us aren´t homicidal fuckheads. Just 51%.

Yesterday we flew to Stockholm and were greeted with the grim realities of Sweden in November. Honestly, I don´t see how these people do it. It gets dark at 3:30 in the afternoon for fuck´s sake! AND it´s butt cold already. Still, Stockholm in any weather is preferable to many other cities we´ve been to and it´s nice to be back here. For the next 2 days we are just going to relax and rest. There´s no great pressure to do anything touristy here because this our 6th time in the city and we´ve seen much of what it has to offer already. Saturday and Sunday we teach and Monday we fly back to Barcelona before heading stateside.

Europe is always a nice place to visit, but I am succumbing to a little homesickness today and feeling a might sorry for myself. Can´t wait to get back and see you all again.

Cheers.