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 Posted
October 25, 2004
Hey! Here's the next fabulous entry:
Barcelona
was....very interesting. Aparently it used to be super rundown before
the olympics came, and then they buldozed a lot of it and built
malls and a beach, and the like. So you would be walking down the
street and outside of a high fashion store there would be a woman
with a baby begging for change.
However,
even though the city mostly creeped me out, there were a lot of
cool things that I saw. I took a bike tour of Barcelona and through
that I biked the city for four and half hours. I saw the steps Christpher
Columbus greeted Queen Isabella after discovering the New World.
There also a lot of super old buildings in which, coincidentally,
all of the roads to them were all up hill.
^ Cortnie (in blue) and her friends try to make sense
of the audio-guided tour at Blenheim Palace.
I also
have a new respect for the Food and Drug Administration. Go them...they
really know what they are talking about. I went to a food market
where animals were being chopped up and sold in saran wrap. I wouldn't
have bought them, but I'm sure it's the same stuff that probably
goes on in the butcher's.
Since
my last journal entry I have travelled to Hampton Court, the town
of Bath, Saatchi Gallery, the Tate Modern, and the Tate Britain.
Hampton
Court was really interesting-we got an audio tour and we were all
so confused by the system of it-we spend half our time trying to
figure it out, but once we did-it was pretty cool. We studied English
history as one of our classes here and so I got to see some of the
places I have learned about. It's like learning about the Alamo
in first grade, then going to see it!
 The
Roman Bath's were pretty cool. It was awesome to see where Romans
bathed and worshipped hundred of years ago. I tried to take a bath
in the same bath house they did. But the gaurds stopped me before
I could get all of my clothes off. Oh well. (actually, that really
didn't happen at all, but it was a nice thought)
I also
went and saw the play Stuff Happens. It
is a play that is about President Bush and Prime
Minister Tony Blair and it basically recapped all that has been
on the news in the past 2 years. I was impressed with the production
except one part.
(I'm not going to reveal my political standpoint, so...)
Aparently the stereotype of all Texans is that we speak ridiculously
slow and with the worst twang ever. We also have water towers and
tin shacks in our backyards. Oh well-at least we don't have the
stereotype of bad teeth and drinking too much tea.
I miss
all of you back home and I home Schreiner is doing okay with out
me!
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