It has literally come to the end of my stay in Barcelona with 4 days left until I start my next European adventure and I cannot believe how fast the time has went by. I remember coming here like it was yesterday and meeting my roommates and figuring out how to navigate this city. Now I feel like an old pro who knows the city like the back of my hand. My friends joke that I am a human GPS because I always know where we are in the city as can also direct us around any city that we have been too. Coming from NYC I knew I had a good sense of direction, but find that it is even better than I thought.
I truly have seen so much of Barcelona, but my only regret is not being able to see the south of Spain and exploring more of Spain. While I have gone to a lot of places in Catalonia and in Europe, I want to come back and explore the south of Spain and go to Morocco and Portugal in my next adventure. Even so, I have explored areas where others in our program and other Americans really have not been. For example, I went to Andorra with my parents and everyone there was amazed that we were American. Most people there knew no English, but all the signs were in English.
While I have many top vacations here, one of the best that occurred within Spain was my trip to Gran Canaria because I got my scuba diving license while there. I went to this little port Mogan and Taurito on the island and it was amazing. Everyone was so friendly and it was just so beautiful.
I really am going to miss Barcelona and the friends I have made here. I feel like with a lot of my friends I am just starting to really get to know them and know we have to part ways. For some I will literally never see them again because we all live all over the US. It is strange to think of this and sad, but true.
I loved every minute of my experience here and loved living my 'fake life' as I called it!
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