It's been a while

Why haven't I blogged all week? I don't do anything blogworthy anymore. Shout out goes to Mrs. G for inspiring this post.

I decided that my goal for the blog by the end of my trip is to write it in Spanish. We'll see if that goes better than my Summer goal of actually using Rosetta Stone.

On Sunday I took a day trip con mi familia to Dali's Theatre Museum. It was a bit over an hour away in a beautiful part of Spain near Girona. It's the largest surrealist museum in the world and was designed by Dali himself. It used to be a church and actually is the same church where Dali was baptized. It had been bombed during the war, rebuilt as a theatre, and was finally bought by Dali and turned into a museum.

I'm not the biggest Dali fan, but this museum is quite unique. Every single corner drips with surrealism. It is much more than just paintings on walls with a handful of sculptures. It's hard to describe.

The coolest thing about the museum was the special exhibit featuring Dali's "Persistence of Time". It's perhaps his most famous work and is typically housed in New York's Museum of Modern Art. For a limited time, and for the first time ever, it is being shown in Spain. Having been familiar with the work, I was surprised by how small it was, especially when comparing it to the size of some of Dali's other works.

The museum was cool, but my favorite thing about my day was spending time con my familia. Vanessa (my hermana) and Nina (my mama) have really embraced me as their own and it means the world to me. Matt and I could not have gotten luckier with our homestay family. I was hesitant at first, and the first couple days were full of "what have I gotten myself into?" moments. My Spanish improves by leaps and bounds each day and I can now have a half decent conversation with Nina. Vanessa's English is baller and she helps me with my Spanish all the time. Big thanks to Vanessa and Nina for helping Matt and I adjust in our new home.

Hasta luego,


Juiceman