chupitos, sagrada familia, arc de triomf

Saturday night we ended up going to a different bar called Chupitos which is a shot bar with over 500 different shots (grandma, I'll spare you the details). But it was actually really cool, they lit the shots on fire and used different colors and everything. The bar was also full of people so it was a fun night.

(Harry Potter Shot)














Sunday we decided that we were going to go make sure we knew how to get to the two campuses we would be having class at so we took a walk over to them. Our metro stop is the same as the main CEA campus so it only takes 5 minutes to get there, the other CEA campus was about a 15 minute walk from the main campus. Because I am in the business program, I am also taking two business classes at different campuses, so each one of my four classes is in a different building.

Sundays here are strictly a day of rest, very different than the US. NOTHING was opened, it was like a ghost town walking around. After we found the campuses, we walked over to Gaudí's last project he worked on before he passed away, The Sagrada Familia.















Still under construction, the Sagrada Familia is a church with hundreds of biblical references; one could be there for hours and still not get through all the symbols. Gaudí dedicated the last forty years of his life to the construction of this church. At the beginning of it's construction, Gaudí made it clear that the only funding for the church would be from the peoples donations; no government money would be used to create the church. In the end, Gaudí had given up his whole fortune to its construction. Visitors are also able to take an elevator all the way to the top of the temple for amazing views of the city; however, we didn't go up because the line was very long. I'm sure I'll get up there sometime this semester and share the pictures I take.

After the Sagrada Familia we walked back to our apartment, making one more stop at the Arc de Triomf (obviously not the same as the one in Paris). Once we walked through the arc there was a widened sidewalk that happened to be full of life on the otherwise dead Sunday.














After the Arc, we walked home, made dinner, and relaxed before our first day of classes.