Success - I survived a full week.

So I have survived my first full week in the lab here. Last week had a free day on Tuesday so I only really did 3 proper days and I totally forgot how tiring a day is when you are having to balance standing around a lot, understanding what on earth you are doing and not blowing yourself or anyone else up so you can end the day in one piece is. (Okay so maybe that’s a bit over the top but would you expect any less) But I am still here and I haven’t broken any expensive equipment yet so I think I’ll count it a success. 

I did however throw my lunch all over the floor in the kitchen of the institute today. But in the grand scheme of things I'll get over the minor embarrassment. 

I haven’t really managed to do anything else of excitement at all this week, The hours here are long and I think this is mainly due to the fact a large amounts of the day are taken up drinking coffee and waiting for public transport but I’m not complaining. I can totally get used to the more relaxed pace.

And on the same note of relaxed paces the whole of Spain basically takes the whole of August off work so the institute I am working at closes for 3 weeks, and I am using this time to have a little holiday of my own. Yep that’s right, it looks like I will be back in the UK for a week and then I'm going on holiday with my family to France for a week. I did want to use my extra week off to do a bit of travelling but the costs are just a bit much in Aug and I do kind of have to do some work for a week (I am still a student) so as it stands I am likely to be back in LB for the first week of August, so watch this space.

I also wanted to share a couple of pictures from my lovely day in Barca last weekend, and I am going on a walking tour of the old town of Barca tomorrow so I am sure I will have another set of photos to share fairly soon. 

The Sagrada Familia is crazy impressive in real life. It is hard to imagine that they will ever really finish it. 

Barcelona's Gay pride parade passing by. We were not expecting this when we walked out of the metro station at all! 

 The Font màgica de Montjuïc in Catalan is amazing. It was quite odd watching and listening to the classical music accompaniment whilst hearing the tecno music from the party behind! Something I deffs want to see again. 

I think next time I will write a nice post about my observations on Spain whilst I am going about my daily life. On the whole its not that different here but there are a couple of things which make me chuckle/want to cry every time I see them!