I have not written in here for a week now because I really did not have anything to write about, due to the fact that we have been imprisoned in studio for seven days at least. Do not get me wrong is a cool place, I love it, but I feel like the days are just sprucing through and everything is going by so fast we are not enjoying it.

Something happened today though, it started early in the morning when we were coming back from the club(I decided to start off my weekend yesterday due to studio suppression of the past 265 hours). The club closed at three and the metro was still closed, so we were going to take taxi. Then I remembered Josh, how he wouldn't get on the metro because he was missing a big part of his day and of such beautiful place into a hole in the ground. So we walked home from the Olympic Village, I realized it was the first time, considering we have been here for a month and week that my feet touched the sand, and the second I actually took time to look at the stars.

Anyways we got back home, went to sleep, woke up for class (liza was sick) so I put on some clothes and left. I got to studio to realize that there was no one there but Kathryn, there was no way, today was my first day early to class! So I head on out and decided to go to the pharmacy try to see about the antibiotics. The guy lectured me for about fifteen minutes about how she should have finished them, and then me and Nick headed on to studio.

In studio, prof. Costa gave a lecture, which was awesome. About the early history of the city and its layers. From the Roman colony, the first expansion, the addition of the Raval to Cerda. I came to realize how la Rambla used to be one of the limits of the city, a part of the city wall. And that it is actually the main road that divides the old city, I always thought it went east to west, and today 4 weeks after being here I realized is not.

So after class, I went to the art store, and as I was walking there I decided I was just gonna go see what he was talking about. So I ended up walking for 2 hours. I walked along the main axis of the first city. I saw the city in a completely different way, from the main plaza, the cathedral, the palace, I went to Santa Catherina and the back neighborhood. This neighborhood when Kathryn talked about it, she said it was new and the market was trying to bring people into it. I had never even seen past the market. Anyways, is beautiful, is all these new apartment blocks, they are all different colors but they have the old buildings as well, sometimes they intermingle one beside the other, sometimes within them. It is definitely more local as well. I sat on a parc for a while and just drew, it felt so nice, getting away from the camera. I have taken 1006 pictures since we have been here, and today I felt like I was actually really looking at a place more than just an object.

So I guess after this long book that I just wrote what I am trying to get at is that we have been so rushed to look at stuff, to go to all these places, we don't really pay attention to how we get there or the details. We see and don't look, and we are missing the stuff that really make this city so wonderful.