Barcelona has a very diverse culture through its architecture, history, and everyday life. I wanted to capture the smaller details of those aspects of the city with street photography. This form of photography is capturing candid moments of individuals and places with the goal of creating stories of authentic moments. Read more…
As much as I have been enjoying exploring the various cities in Spain, I was really interested in going on a hike and seeing some nature. In my research, I came across Mount Montserrat as being a great local day trip to climb a mountain. I rode the train taking Read more…
Today is the start of our 3-day weekend which gives everyone a chance to explore and leave the local area of Barcelona. I was invited to tag along to take a trip to Tarragona, which is a port city. I took the train which was about an hour and a Read more…
Today we started with a tour of the Theatre Lilure. I really thought it was cool of the technology they have to change and rearrange the seating to create tons of different compositions. The flooring is made up of sections that can be raised or lowered separately. The seats are Read more…
Today was a speed run through Girona and the Dali museum. Girona was a beautiful city with some amazing architecture which I wish I got to actually sit and enjoy. There was a flower festival going on which made everything look even prettier. This was also the location where some Read more…
Today I booked a lunch at a place called the Husky House. I’ve been really missing my own dogs back home and wanted to hang out with some dogs to fill the void. The Husky House is an Airbnb experience where you can pet 4 very well-trained huskies and then Read more…
Today we had an early start visiting the Modernism Museum. It was really interesting going through this museum and learning about how art and its meaning were being pushed depicting the struggle and real lives people lived. There was also a lot of furniture with intricate details of people or Read more…
For our next class trip, we took a train to Madrid, the capital of Spain, for an overnight stay. The train we took was really fast and we got to see a lot of really nice views as we traveled through the countryside. We stayed in Hotel Madrid Plaza Espana Read more…
Today was our first guest speaker and business visit in Spain. Our guest speaker was Benjamin Cunningham who worked as an international journalist, but now is an author. He was born in Michigan, bored, and wanted to go for his master’s in international journalism. Ben decided to study in Amsterdam Read more…
The big trip for today was visiting Sagrada Familia and Park Guell. Sagrada Familia is a huge church designed by Antoni Gaudi. Construction started in 1882 and is still continuing to this day. The entire structure is built with many symbolic meanings behind them. One of them being the number Read more…