Oh, back to school...

Monday "school" started again. Or I should really just call it the thing that makes me get up and waste time sitting in a room listening to a boring person talk. Although now that its nearing the end (huge tear rolling down my cheek) I actually have to start doing some work. Ugh.

So the week was pretty uneventful, other than the fact I had a slight touch of the flu, but it wasn't exiting via my mouth....you get the picture?

Mike's mom and brother came to visit him so since he had to meet my parents, I had to meet his. We met them at their hotel first. His mom was so sweet. She was like "Mike she's just as pretty as she is in the pictures you sent me." Which by the way I later found out are hanging on his fridge. Wow, guess his mom thinks we're dating or something. ;) I would soon find out that his brother and him are the exact same person and are so fun to be around to just observe them together. I felt really comfortable with them. We then headed to a restaurant. It was really cute inside and the food was amazing. Here's an embarrassing first-time-meeting-the-family story for ya...We all ordered this chicken dish and when it came out it was chicken on a skewer... great... how in the world are you supposed to politely eat that in front of people you are trying to impress?! So I start going at it with my knife and fork and I got half of the chicken off without a problem. Then I go to get more off.... so I'm working away at it and the whole kabob slides off my plate! SWEET! How embarrassing. His brother who was sitting across from me was the only one who saw and he kinda smiled at me and said "its ok, I didn't see anything." So I pick it back up and put it on my plate. Whew! Dodged that bullet. I attempt again. Within thirty seconds the piece of chicken flies off of the skewer and onto the floor!!! SWEETER! I, who does not get embarrassed very easily, wanted to crawl into a hole and never come out. This time everyone saw what had just taken place. And the Mike, the wonderful person he is, gets up and takes a picture of my chicken lying on the floor...wow I picked a good one! They all just laughed about it and didn't seem to care, so that was good at least, but I was so embarrassed.

On Friday, I had a day trip to the place that's called The Forum. It was built in 2004 for the Universal Exhibition. It was just a huge place covered in cement where they had all their exhibitions. I have no idea why our professor thought it was appropriate to take up a Friday morning to show us cement. The only cool thing is that in one of the buildings there is a huge model of the entire city of Barcelona. So that was pretty cool to see actually. That night, Mike and I took his brother to Chupitos. A small bar that serves crazy shots. There are probably about 100-150 different shots you can choose from. My two favorites are The Harry Potter which is they take an orange, put sugar and cinnamon on top and light it on fire and then you take the shot and eat the orange. Delicious. The other favorite is the Boy Scout. This time they put alcohol on the bar and give you a marshmallow on a stick to roast over the burning alcohol and then you eat the marshmallow and take the shot. I have no idea what is in the shots but they are really good and not strong. His brother enjoyed it but it is always soooo packed, like can hardly move so we weren't there too long. We then headed to a new club that opened and it was so amazing. Probably my favorite one here. Very modern and it was a nice mix of American students and locals.

Last night I went out to dinner again with Mike and his mom and brother. I was glad they decided to take me out in public again after I threw chicken on the ground. We first went to the fountain/light show that I took my parents to and then went to a tapas bar. Dinner was great. They are so easy to get along with and his mom is so sweet. She likes when girls are around considering she raised three boys and a husband. (Yes, I know it sounds like I said she raised a husband, that's exactly what I wanted to say. I think husbands are just like children and need to be "raised". That's why I'm not getting married...) After dinner we got ice cream and then his mom and brother headed back to hotel because they had to get up early for their flight back to New Jersey.

Today, I HAVE to be a little productive and get a start on at least one of my papers that's going to be due in the next few weeks. I don't even know if I remember how to write a paper. I feel like its been so long since I did anything that I would consider to be true school work. My blog has been the closest thing to actually doing anything that requires a little bit of effort. So I'm going to stop procrastinating and get going on some of that.