Terra Nova

Sharou's Blog as a Globe Trotter

Monday, October 16, 2006

So lost, so out of shape!

Beautiful sunflower fields and farm land. So lost and so out of shape! A 40km bike trip in Costa Brava (Girona).

Sunday, October 08, 2006

How many MBAs does it take to find a car?

It is rather strange being back to school with half of the people I spent the past 9 months with gone. I remembered my reaction when I walked into Crappa on the first day back to school, “Who &#(* are these people? Where is my seat?” So I finally experienced what I wanted to experience, the feeling of ‘left behind’, well, that’s exaggerating, more of the feeling of ‘sticking around while others are gone’.

Since I am ‘trapped’ in BCN, I might as well take the advantage of taking excursion around the city. Here we are! Port Aventura, the Disneyland-like amusement park. The wait for all the rides was unbelievable long. Think we ended up spending 70% of our time waiting, including the line for food. Thank god the companies were quite entertaining so time flew. 4 roller coaster rides later, I felt dizzy. Think I am getting old for russian mountains. Had my first Spanish Disneyland experience, not too far from the real Disney experience. Was quite impressed by the organization and maintenance of the park. Would have been nice if they actually had a Spanish theme park. But again, maybe it’s just not so exotic for the locals so they opted for China, Mexico, Oceania etc. ‘Why go to China when we got the Forbidden City and the Great Wall here? “ lol. Cannot help myself laughing when they decorated Halloween with skeletons in Chinese costumes. Super cursi!

The highlight of my day was the reenactment of the infamous Seinfeld parking episode: Mi pana F was raising his hand in the air with the remote control key of the car to see if any car would respond. It turned out that we spent 40 minutes looking for the car in the wrong parking lot. Duh, how long and how many MBA’s does it take to find the right car in a parking lot? The answer: 1 hour with 3 ½ MBAs!