If I Were a Rich Girl...

...I would hire a fricken maid!!!  The landlord is coming tomorrow at an unknown time because he's mysterious like that, so Vicky and I have been cleaning for about 2 hours.  Swept and mopped the entire flat, scrubbed sinks, the kitchen counter tops, the toilet, and the nasty tub.  We discovered that the last people that lived here must have never cleaned after themselves and probably didn't even get their deposit money back because we found out why the tub was running so slow during our showers.  Vicky pulled out soooo much hair that didn't even belong to us because it was blonde and short.  Then I went and shined a flashlight into the hole and saw this wad of...I don't even know WTF was down there, but that's what's been keeping the water from flowing normally.  Our landlord better do something about that because there's seriously so many things wrong with our flat =''(.  

Moving onto happier things...We went to Parc de la Ciutadella where there's this huge fountain I saw in my travel book, so I thought we should check it out.  And because it was freeeee!!  We've been checking out all the free stuff because we're still broke from paying our 2 months of rent and the deposit, and now we're just waiting for our scholarship money and whatever's left of our financial aid to come in (hopefully by the end of the month!)  Took the bus there, which only took about 20 minutes.  We got off right across the street from Barcelona's Arc de Triomf, made entirely of brick and maybe even the same size as Paris' Arc de Triomphe, or bigger.  We walked across it and into the park and after about a half hour of roaming around the park looking for the fountain, we realized that we walked too far and deep into the park, so we had to turn back because the fountain was actually near the entrance.  FAIL.  

While taking in the fountain's beauty, we both realized that the Spaniards here never seem like they have anything important to do, like umm, go to work and make some paper!  They're always just lounging around, sitting on a bench, reading a book, talking to friends, having a cigarette or a glass of wine at some cafe, and not giving a damn about anything.  They're never in a rush to do anything and they live a reallyyyy slow paced life.  It makes me want to be just like them haha!  I'm a little scared that I might be like that when I come back to San Diego and I know that won't be good.  I'll go back to my procrastinating ways and end up not graduating hahaha!

After the fountains, we went to this Greek restaurant across the street because we saw that they had lunch specials for 6 euro!!  Got a yummylicious grilled chicken pita with like 10 french fries (I swear, I think they count their fries because Vicky got the same amount), and a pepsi for each of us.  I could have gotten a glass of wine or a beer instead of my pepsi for the same price, but I didn't want to drink by myself since Vicky can't drink and I wouldn't want her poor liver to disintegrate.  So to all my friends back in the states, come visit me, and we shall drink together lol.  Oh!  You know how Asians are when they eat out at restaurants?  They come, they order, they eat, they leave?  Well, I haven't been doing that since I've been here.  I think I'm slowly becoming European.  We slowly ate our food and after we finished, we just sat there and talked for a  while, and then we payed for our food and left.  

We wandered through the streets and wound up in some street that was lined with little boutique stores and tons of restaurants.  I don't know what the area or street was called, but it was really cool finding it!  It got a little tiring walking around not knowing where we were so we decided to head home, except we couldn't find the bus line we were suppose to hop on, so we just winged it and hopped on a bus and it took us down to the port where the beaches and boats and rich people's yachts were, and it was BEAUTIFUL!  We think we know which bus line it was, so we might go back there sometime this weekend or next week, but we're not sure yet because school starts on Monday! Yayyyy!!! and Eeeek!!!

Today, we took the metro to Labrynth Park that Victor's friend suggested because she was in Barca last semester.  Supposedly, it's not a big tourist attraction yet, and it's nowhere near the center of the city.  Of course we always get lost getting somewhere, it's expected now, but once we find it, we forget about our frustrations with each other.  Yeah, Vicky and I had a tiny fight on the way there because she was being a turd and it got annoying so I just left her and went into the maze on my own haha.  It was super funnn!!  Took me about 10 minutes to find my way out.  I overheard these girls talking to each other in English and I asked where they were from and if they were studying abroad.  They said they were from St. Louis and they were there for a Eurotrip and going to Mallorca tomorrow.  I was so jealous, but I thought, shoot I'm going to be here for 5 months, so I'll get to travel through Europe, too!  Maybe.  If I can afford it.

While we were cleaning, we told each other that we'd reward ourselves with some super juicy watermelon we got at the market the other day when we finished cleaning.  I was so looking forward to it because we had some of it for dessert yesterday and it was deliciousss.  Vicky goes and cuts up the watermelon on our cutting board that we used to cut up garlic yesterday when making our spaghetti dinner, so we just had some garlic flavored watermelon right now. Mmmmm.  Not.  

Time to go shower and go to bed hopefully before midnight and prepare for the coming of our landlord tomorrow.  Our first impression of him so far is that he's a jerkwad who's not going to fix anything.  So please pray for us.  We don't want to live in this shithole if nothing's going to be fixed.  All we ask for is a working drying machine, a working bathtub, and for him to do something with the bedbugggs!!