whell, nobody said it would be a bed of roses, but still. first my castilan is not convenient either but my catalan is a desaster. despide all hopes i got to know today that all my courses will be held in catalan and somehow i survived my first two days of catalan lessons.
soon i'll have to choose another title for this blog in order not to get furius simply by reading any word begining with cat....
so we now have one week of intensive catalan lessons which last 4! hours every day while at least during the last hour everybody is somerwhere close to sleep. i'm looking forward to my first spanish lessons to get a base for all this. lets see how this all works out. ...and if you have nice flat mates they can still cheer you up when comming home and almost beeing dead (killed by catalan-lessons)

sorry about writing everything in english.
warscheinlich schreib ich auch mal was in spanisch
oder alemán. pero... es igual

use any tounge you like.

i am still and always was a big fan of the ilmpark in weimar. green meddows with tangled paths that make you feel the parc was twice es big as it is indeed.

now take away all the green green grass, add some hills and a stunning view over the city, some enchanted buildings, a museum of gaudi and some arcards made
out of rough stone instead of tiny caves on the sides of the park like in weimar.
instead of the kubus, imagine a big hall full of majestic pillars. than you get an area full of mediteranian vegetation which is of course worlds apart from resembling the ilmpark in the slightes way. well of course. but how could one explain when one
only knew the ilmpark bevor.

well, it may be a bit harder than it was in weimar, but it is not imposible at all. i even believe it to be a task much more easier than finding a nice room in cities like munich or hamburg.

it took me 3 days to find something nice and as a handy side effect i got to know the basic structure of barcelona on my journeys.
a website that turned out to be realy helpfull is
www.habitagejove.com

on the other hand it was impossible to find somthing in adwanced when i was still in germany. long term planing does not seem to be in favourite of some spanish people, at least not, when it comes to renting a room. every time i asked if i could visit somthing the next week or so i got a: ¿eres
aqui? ¡llamas commo eres aqui en barcelona!
but the better this way. i don't like planing in advance much either.

famous sagrade familia. everybody knows it from pictures and postcards. when standing in front of it, it is hard to belive how something like this is possible. it seems like gaudi has had some wierd ideas, likely inspired by drugs and absinth and went with this to somebody and proposed with a psychotic flicker in his eyes: shall we build this, in real, like real big and all in the middle of a city?!

that was of course not what it was like. but for more than 100 years now they are building somthing like a castle made out of wet sand on a beach right here in barcelona, whose plans seem to belong to a fairy tale. another 30 years it shall take at least to acomplish the mision at least, they say.
but nevermind. in my opinion it is one of the most enchanting buildingsites in the world and i enjoy seeing it every day.