So yesterday, July 14, I finally decided to get up off my butt since I had the day off and go down to DC and drop off my Visa application (is that capitalized? I have no clue, I'm thinking about the credit card company) at the Embassy of Spain. I am super late on this. I think I was supposed to do it like a month and a half ago, but I honestly couldn't get to DC because you can only drop off a visa application from 9 AM - 1 PM, Monday to Friday. Guess who has work at that time, like always! Me! So you can put your pitchforks down. Hopefully my visa and passport come back in time because if not, I don't know what I'll do and my study abroad advisor will probably yell at me.
Here is a lovely grainy photo of the Foggy Bottom GWU metro station, because I am an idiot and forgot to take a picture of the Embassy. It's honestly nothing special, so I don't feel bad. It's just a white building with the Spanish flag on it. However, it was super nice inside. I'm talking marble floors and granite countertops. I only waited like five minutes until I was called up by the lady at the window. She actually called me up in Spanish, like I would write whatever she said but I was too busy panicking to remember what she actually said. I was like "Oh my god, do I have to know fluent Spanish? I suddenly forgot all the Spanish I learned in my four years of taking classes" but it turned out to be fine because she could speak English. Duh. Turns out I actually got there at the perfect time because as soon as I was finished, like twenty people came in and lined up. I feel like this kind of thing always happens to me. I always leave somewhere right as a million people are just getting there.
Anyways, wow I wrote a lot. I guess this was a nice introductory blog post. And technically it counts because it's about Barcelona. Or, more like my impending journey to Barcelona. How do you end these things? I don't know what to say. Goodbye? See you later? I don't know. The next time I update will probably be the night before I leave. AHHH