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The weekend adventures of the kids at Piedmont High
Patrick's Travel Blog
The Misadventures of Family in Europe for a Month of "I don't Knows" and "What did he say again?"
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Hello!

So I am new to this whole world of blogging, but I am going to to try to dive right in! I am 21 and I am currently studying in Barcelona, Spain for a semester. My real major back at Knox (where I go to college) is Biochemistry and Neuroscience (maybe). I thinking of chaning to Spanish and Biochemistry because I just like to much because it allows me use such a completely different part of my brain that what I use for Biochemistry and other nerd stuff. Anyway, I really enjoy music. I think that I would die without iTunes and Podcast. I have this really really bad habit of where I feel like I need to be connected all the time. I think that it is something which is coming with my generation. I am not quite convinced that it is a good thing yet...I am on my way though because I am starting this blog. My picture is from my grandma's house. She lives out in the boon-docks and it is about the most amazing place. I think that it will never get sold at least I now to member of my family who will never let it go...

So. I think that should do for now. If think that I left something like really important out the just send me a message and I will put it up.



WHOA

Barcelona, Spain


Hi! This is short. Hello!

permalink written by  Patrick on November 19, 2007 from Barcelona, Spain
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Oh the weekend...

Barcelona, Spain


Anyway, I am here in Barcelona sitting in the computer lab quitely listening to the hum of computers and the quite pecking my fingers are making on the keyboard. I had a hard time sleeping last night because of something I was listening to on radio. I don´t if any of you listen to This American Life (http://www.thislife.org/) with Ira Glass on NPR. If you don´t...you should. It was the most amazingly akward show I think that I have ever heard in all the years that I have been listening to it. It was about a man who as a child watched / heard the death and rape of his mother. Now, the gentleman is going around making a documentry about the killing in every aspect. It was so unbelievable to sit and to listen to this man recount perhaps the most painful 30 minutes of life over a 2 hours documentry. He said it was to bring closure, but if even he admitts that it just seemed to open up new wounds. What do you think? Do you think that you could go back and look back at the death of one the people you love most in your life? I am quite certain that I don´t think that I could. I am to reserved. Reserved is a funny world that I just tryed to apply to myself...Hahaha. I am not reserved, but I guess in this case I think I would have a reserved reaction. At least I hope that I would have that type of reaction.

Anyway, this picture is from two weekend ago when me and some friends went to San Sebastian to escape from the city for awhile. I mean Barcelona is great don´t get me wrong, but I am country boy at heard. I like watching sunsets unpolluted by the hustle and bustle of cars and smog. Granted, there can be a certain beauty in this hustle and bustle but normally for me it wears off. I think this time in Barcelona has reaffirmed something that I have been trying to hide for awhile. I like the city. I like the city alot. I like the country more though. I think the best outlook I can have on life is that to life somewhere out in the boon docks like my grandma and then commute to work every...Sorry enviromentalist. I will try to car-pool. My dad car-pooled for 20 years and then the man he car-pooled with stopped working...well retired I should say. I remember waking up in the morning hear the screaming of the coffe grinder and my dad was getting his morning brew ready. I would eat cheerio...I think I soley supported general mills for the first ten years of my life breakfast was ALWAYS the same. Cheerios, a little sugar, and Bananas with apple juice...weird combination...don´t hate me.

Anyway, I have been craving American food....Wait not american food in the sense of all that shitty McDonalds that they be pass'in off as food. I want Biscuits and Buttermilk Gravy with small chucks of bacon miked for breakfast. For lunch hot Potate Soup the fatting way...ie lots of cream! Then for dinner. Roast, Potatoes and Carrots. I would explode after eating of all that but then I would actually be able to stop thinking about. The food here in Barcelona is good. Its very good. I really like the use of lentil I am going to try to incorporate it more into my diet when I get back. Also, Tuna. I used to be on the minimalist side of the tuna affair now I am full-fledged national pride member of the group Tuna Lovers Unite.

Till Later...Parents are coming soon!



permalink written by  Patrick on November 13, 2007 from Barcelona, Spain
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Why did I even think about!

Barcelona, Spain


I don't know why I even started to think about it. So for you have been keeping a running tally on my blog. I was thinking about American food this morning. And, so what did I decide to do for lunch when my Senora didn't give something that was not filling enough...I went to them Golden Arches. Like a Dumb American. Can I have two small hamburgers please! I am so angry at my self!!!!

Till Later.

permalink written by  Patrick on November 13, 2007 from Barcelona, Spain
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Day 1: What to say?

Barcelona, Spain


So...I am new to this whole world of blogging and the blog-o-sphere as I have come to think of it. I find very interesting the lives that we live precariously through the internet we have come so far since the 1950’s or so far back in the minds of others. I have been in Barcelona for about two months now. I have to be nearing the anniversary shortly although I really don’t keep track of those sorts of details. My life is to full to worry about suchs…although it would be nice to know honestly…oh how far a little organization would go in my life.

I wish that I would have found out about this web-site sooner. I just finished a month like adventure in Europe until I came to study in Barcelona to study. I was in England, Germany, Italy, and France…I am not stationed here in Spain until December 1st when my parents arrive and the new adventures begin. Oh I am excited!

PC

permalink written by  Patrick on November 12, 2007 from Barcelona, Spain
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