Tapas...New Experience

Last night we went out to the bars to celebrate te 4th of July with other people in Barcelona. We went to Dow Jones Bar where the price of drnks is determined by the people in the bar and how many people are ordering that drink. The place was packed with tourist and students from the United States and Europe. As we were all having a good time everyone starts singing the Star Spangled Banner, let me tell you that was the first time I heard people sing it without forgetting the words, some peoples minds just work better with alcohol..lol...I like going to Dow Jones because the bartender Spicy Mexican Diana hooks it up with free shots, as you can tell we have something in common, we are both Mexicans so she hooks it up. After an exciting night we made our way back home. We had a field study today for my international marketing class, a field study is just an activity we do for the class which requires us to go somewhere to learn from something we do or someone we talk to. Today we went to the Association of Retailers here in Barcelona, which is like a marketing association for almost 200 stores which are located near the the Espanya district and on one of the msot shopped streets. This association is in charge of bringing in customers to the area and promoting the different stores and restaurants. It is an award winning association. After listening to the director speak tonus about what she does I mentioned if they have internships for students and she said around the months of May and June is when they need people to help so I'm looking into internships. Today after going to class and doing my normal routine throughout the day I was exhausted from classes and homework but that was not going to stop me from going to the tapas experience. Tapas are our version of appetizers. With the program we went to this tapas restaurant where we started off with some basic tapas such as ham and bread little did we now that we were going to be having over 10 different tapas...we didn't mind it was FREE food and being college students we never turn down free. WE tried everything from tortilla de patatas con cebolla to chorizitos en vino to even just hot peppers with salt. It was a really great experience and finally learning the names of some of the items was a good experience.