I’m back, back, back
again!
I’ve totally been a
bad blogger lately. I have been knee deep in school work and then last week we
had our week long travel week. While 10 days of gallivanting around Europe is
so liberating, it’s also absolutely exhausting. Moving from city to city,
unpacking, repacking, and touring 3 cities, in 3 different countries in that
short amount of time can be so draining (but so much fun!).
While my workload
here definitely isn’t as heavy when I’m back at Furman, it’s also crammed into
a shorter time period. It seems as though I have multiple papers,
projects, and presentations due every week, and the next thing I know I’m
behind on blog posts, emails, and sleep! Unfortunately, that means that Prep Avenue ends up getting
pushed down the to-do list.
While I would love to
be able to consistently post 3+ days a week, sometimes it’s just not realistic.
I always end up juggling too many plates and most of the time one has got to
give. Instead of being hard on myself for not making time for my blog, I have to
understand my priorities. I’m a 20 year old college student and right now my
school work will always come before my blog. I started my blog for myself as a creative outlet during a rough time in high school, and I need to remind
myself of that when I feel guilty about not posting. It’s been so fun to
reflect on all my study abroad adventures here and I want to continue to do so
I can look back at these years down the road!
Now if we rewind to
the weekend before my travel week, I headed to Barcelona! I had been to
Barcelona once before when I was younger, but I was excited to go back and get
more time to explore the city!
While I’ve had some
interesting experiences in hostels while being over here, this one was unique and super cool! I had a great experience!
I went with my friend
Kayla (seen in most of my study abroad pictures!) and we got in late Friday
night and spent that night exploring the area where our hostel was located and getting
dinner! We window shopped in all the designer stores and picked out all of our
favorite items.
We woke up early
Saturday morning ready to hit the road hard and to hit almost all the major
sites in in one day! We walked over 13 miles that day (God bless my riding
boots), while singing cheetah girls most of the way! We had perfect weather, which made the day even
better!
Recognize this place?
This is where the cheetah girls ran down the steps! So of course this was the
first place we visited.
After exploring a
food market and getting a quick lunch, we stumbled upon beautiful gardens and
decided we must rent a paddle boat and recreate our favorite notebook scene.
Everyone else in the pond was making fun of our lack of paddling skills the
entire time and we couldn’t stop cracking up at how terrible we were. Aside
from our terrible paddling skills, it was a beautiful setting and probably one
of my favorite things we did on the trip!
We slowly made our
way back to the northern section of the city and of course made a stop to visit
La Sagrada Familia. Look how cool this article is I found after our visit. I
guess I’m just going to have to go back!
One of our last big
stops of the day was Park Güell. While it was a long hike up there, it was
definitely worth the view. The architecture is breath taking and the bright colors
had me in love.
We left Sunday morning to head back to school.
While it was a quick trip, it was still a nice break from campus and such a
cool city to experience! This weekend I'm headed to Slovenia so be on the lookout for pictures!
Remember,
xoxo
S
I've been loving all of your travel recaps from your semester abroad! Barcelona looks so pretty!
ReplyDeletexoxo,
Katie
chicincarolina.blogspot.com
Looks like you're having an amazing time, Barcelona was one of my absolute favorites when I studied abroad. And feeling guilty about not posting is such a big problem for me too - definitely a good reminder that sometimes it's okay to let life get in the way!
ReplyDeletexo Olivia | prepessentials.blogspot.com