Day 10 - Barcelona, Bitches! (Barcelona, Spain - Duh)

​​Hello Sunday Bumday!!
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I am officially getting my butts, literally, together to share with all of you! Can I just say, that bad internet is bad? Especially as I'm on a quest to get better at focusing on one thing at a time, but I also can't justify staring at a loading page for 3-20 minutes, so I'm jumping around tabs like a local peligroso! (a local "dangerous" aka, the old guys who close the bar out, and are there the following morning, and are basically professional drinkers - yesterday's photographer Arturo told me about them when I pointed out the nice grandpa's going to the bar at 7am today as he was taking me to the train station - all of which was super sweet of him!). 

better internet connection.. that way! "to america!"

​What else about today?

Well, it's 11pm so the street below me is RAGING, I'm not even half a block from the port of Barcelona and the architecture here is amazing. This area is known as the Gothic Area and it's also a giant tourist hub, as most of Spain is.

I ran into a very unique problem today - I couldn't find anyone to take my picture with some pretty lions around one of the main statues, because no one I encountered spoke neither Spanish nor English. A first in my life!

You mean speaking TWO languages isn't enough to get by with in this world??

So I took pictures of the herds of bros and children instead.

Italy, France, and Belgium are fast approaching and are going to be a good deal of fun. I'm not so much nervous, as I know it will be OK, but oh my do I hate being That Gurl, in any context. This one being - That *American* Gurl - "Excuse me, do you speak ENGLISH??" Ugh. What an asshole.

The train ride here from Malaga was very pleasant, and the passing scenery was very, very pretty. I even got some work accomplished! (Oh shit, I need to email Robert!) Plus, not really a nap, but I did enjoy 40 minutes with my eyes closed.

mandatory bathroom selfie on the train - two hands was required.

Eating vegan has proven impossible today. My first rushed, early morning decision I realized later was probably 90% egg (they call it a tortilla, I believe we'd call it a polenta in the states?) and, when I commented at a restaurant earlier that I noticed they had a veggie burger (I was excited), they took that as - bring her the damn veggie burger! - which required me to scrape off a good amount of cheese and some sauce that was far too fatty and delicious to be anything good for me.

But it's ok!

I've had half a bottle of amazing $4 white wine from the market across the street now, so food is pointless, right?

omg... I could eat. What time is it? fuck - I definitely should eat! how the hell has it been seven hours??? 

As always, time is weird and totally relative and it's the end of the night and I feel like I've accomplished nothing I've set out to do BUT I had some incredible skype calls (incredibly full of technical difficulties too! oh Spain.. your "weefee" is a joke!) and I had so much fun chatting with some of my amazing gofundme-ers!

I also ventured down to the port spent what I consider an unforgivable amount of money on an amazing, silver, skull ring that I absolutely love. It cost a little over $40 and I am quite confident it's worth about $2 in silver. BUT it's ALMOST small enough to fit my finger, I'll hopefully have it forever, and you have to get ripped off at least once in some touristy bullshit spot on every trip, right? So here's my rip off.

I'll just ignore the pit in my stomach . .

I also typically never spend more than $5 on a ring because I actually do lose them, like, a lot. ( < --- future Jin is laughing right now - Just wait for Paris! No worries, there's a Happy Ending)

You guys are awesome! Tomorrow is my last full day in Spain and I have so much to do!

XoXo
JNT

PS besides a couple quick mountain poses and forward bends.. today has been without yoga. I feel bad.. but also know that a day off is good. So instead of feeling guilty, I'm just going to feel committed to tomorrow's, likely hungover practice. Ciao y besos - Jin

Skype with Jin is In-Session!

Have I mentioned that I'm a world-traveling, professional model by the way?
I'm sure I didn't have to even say it, you can just tell by looking at me, right? Buenas Noches.