Barcelona!

Ah, I am back on my own again. it was great to have Brennie and Mikayla see Italy and the side of me that few people (only Christy) have seen. Past that I just wanted to blog really quickly because I had something happen that kind of disturbed me and I am not sure how to deal with it. I have now seen Brennie almost get pickpocketed (told her about it and the guy ended up leaving the metro saying ¨Fucking americans¨) and now in Barcelona I saw a group of kids go down into the Metro and call to other friends about the tourists that were walking down. I have seen pickpocketing, but never have I seen a group of kids and I know what they were doing.

At one point this kid (probably like 14 or 15) was trying to unzip a womans purse, and I turned to him to let him know I was seeing him and that he should not do it. But I did not know whether I should have just yelled at the woman, told her, tried to find a cop or someone for all the kids, or take the ¨who gives a shit, they are stupid tourists¨. In the end I told the kid in Spanish, if you try that one more time I am goign to tell her, I wont let it slide when it is in front of me. He told me to be quiet or gestured with his finger on his mouth, ¨shhh¨. But he did not try with that lady and later I told her to keep her purse the opposite direction.

However, 2 min later as I was walking down the metro area, the group of kids were walking against me and I saw them looking through a wallet they had just stolen. What do i do in that situation? I feel perhaps if I told someone like a cop maybe that may not have happened, but at the same time i want to be yelling at these tourists and people who are naive, ¨HEY, WATCH YOUR STUFF!!¨ Uhh, there is a huge long line at the hostel for the internet, so I shall get off. But I needed to vent.

Otherwise, had a very nice day walkign around Barcelona. Two more days. Oh on the ship ride over...still meeting racist italians, but met a nice older lady Marta, who offered me a coffee on the ship and asked if I wanted to share a ride and than ended up paying for it. besos

Euro Trip 2010

Oh wow, I cant believe I decided to do this trip, when I got back from Argentina it felt so good to be home and to relax...and than when I had to leave for my amazing trip to Europe I almost felt as if I did not want to do it, and than when I actually arrived in Italy and was with family I still kind of wanted to be back home. Last night was kind of hard for me, I only got like 2 hours of sleep because i kept tossing and turning, with the anxiety and wanting to be home I even ended up crying a little bit. Uh, it was hard. But than once I got to Prague...it all went away. I am here in Prague for the first day alone, tomorrow Brennie and Mikayla will meet up with me, and I CANT WAIT. It was super fun even being alone, dinner a little awkward, but today I went on a ¨free guided tour¨ of the old town, new town, jewish district and some info on the river. It was a very good tour and we just paid our guide via tip. I feel as if I should have been writing things down, but in general I feel that tomorrow once with Mik and Brennie I could pass on some of the information I found out via the guide.

I still have yet to see the Oldest Castle in Europe, but I have seen and heard amazing things already about Prague. And in general it is a very beautiful city. I can not understand a thing in czech...but oh well. My first country and I am not able to speak with them, it is definitely new for me, and at least now I cant even pretend to try and not be a tourist, because I dont know how to speak their language.

I shall try and keep up the blog, but with the hostel situations and internet, etc not sure how well Ill do, but I shall try. I dont even know if people would think I would continue to write in this blog or have realized that I would be writing while traveling Europe.