I haven't posted since January! How did this happen...? I have no idea. I can't recall what exactly I've been doing since then but I'll try my best to recap everything. I'll list it out by month, and of course some months were more eventful than others, so some will be short and some will be long.

February

February was a really good month, as you know I was having quite a hard time in school, but luckily I was able to change schools to an art school!! (YAY) I was a little hesitant because I was worried that what if I couldn't make friends and it turns out I moved school for nothing, but fortunately it was very different from the old school. I made friends on the first day! People were inviting me to a bunch of things and it was crazy! I'm so glad that I did change schools!

my friends and I

March

So this month I was running around trying to finish all my art projects, which of course I found really fun, and it was nice to have something to do in school. At the end of this month my parents came to visit me! I loved seeing them. We went to Seville and Barcelona together. In Seville it was crazy! Because it was "Holy Week" all the churches had processions, some of them lasting over night! Thought these processions were really fascinating, they made it really hard to get around Seville.

At the Alcázar with my parents

a procession, and no they are not associated with who you think they are

with my family in Barcelona

April

My parents left the first week of April so after that I went straight back to school. We had a big project to finish this month, but fortunately I knew what I wanted to do so I finished it fast. This month there was also Sant Jordi, one of the cutest holidays ever! It's kinda like Valentines Day, but a lot cooler, what you do is if your a boy you give a rose to the girl you like and if your a girl you give a book to the boy you like. As I said super cute! Parents can also give their kids flowers or books.

my picture of a rainbow rose 

May

It's may now, and it has been more relaxed for me than April. We haven't done much in art class, but it's been really fun hanging out with friends :)

Christmas Time and Other Fun Things

The Holiday season is almost over and I still haven't shared the unique traditions that Catalonia has and my experiences.

In Catalonia Christmas is not that big of a deal here, so I was quite surprised when my host family told me that we are only doing secret santa (or "amigo invisible" is what it is called here), but I went along with it. It was nice that I didn't have to rush to get a bunch of presents, and when the 25th came we did our secret santa and then when off to my host grandmothers host for the big lunch (lunch is the big meal here). We ate a big meal and it was good, we had soup and roasted Chicken. After eating we went around the table and the kids (my little cousins, my host sister, and I) sang songs or recited poems. I not knowing any Catalan or Spanish Christmas carols sang "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" with my host cousin, Berta. After that we did something really unique to Catalonia. It is an activity called the "Caga Tio"

The Caga Tio

As you can see it is this log with a face drawn on it, and has a blanket covering it's whole body. What we did, and all the other children in Catalonia did, was hit the log while sing a song that is asking the log to poop out candies and presents. I am not kidding, the last line of the song is "Caga sisplau" which translated into English is "poop please". After we sung the song we went to another room and sang a Christmas Carol. This is when the parents put candies and presents underneath the blanket that is on the log, then we came back and sung and hit the log, we checked under the blanket and there was the presents/candies, and we did this 6 times. It was quite an interesting experience.

Another cool tradition here is the "Caganer", which is the little pooping man that they put in nativity scenes.

The Caganer

I've asked why they put this in the nativity scene, but thus forth no one could really tell me why. I just think this is really funny. 

After Christmas I went to Torrevieja, Alicante in the the South of Spain to visit a friend I met in Canada.

Torrevieja

It was a lot warmer than Barcelona, and was very beautiful, though the town was kinda dead because it is a summer town. While I was there visiting we went to Cartagena, Murcia, and La Manga. La Manga was really cool, it is a town that is surrounded by two bodies of water.

La Manga

It was also like a ghost town, again a summer city.

When I returned from my trip, I discussed changing schools with my host family and going to a school close by that offers an art program which I'd really like to do, and right now I'm not very happy in my current school. I'm really hoping that I can switch because I know I'd be A LOT happier if I was doing something I love like art in school, but right now we don't know if it is ok for me to switch schools.

Also speaking of art, I've been doing quite a lot recently, here:

Audrey Hepburn

Billie Piper

Emma Watson, and my personal favourite

Mulan

Jenna Louise Coleman