The Barcelona Diaries — Promising Young Women

This is how my time in Barcelona started. With Kate, my best friend, and I staring at each other in our new apartment, saying those words in disbelief. Considering that moving to Barcelona had been all we’d talked about for 9 months, and that planning the move had almost killed us, it’s odd how blindsided we felt by it all. 5 minutes prior, before we entered our new home for the first time, we said how long this process had felt, and how ready we were to get started with our lives here, yet as soon as the estate agent left, we couldn’t believe we were standing in an apartment in Barcelona. “Sure only two seconds ago we were in the library in Trinity”. What followed was a week of us looking at each other every hour and saying “This is so weird, we’re in BARCELONA. We live in Barcelona?!”. It also inspired our game of the week, which consisted of asking the other person a variation of “Sorry to interrupt but where do you live?”, to which the other one has to reply, ever so casually, “Barcelona”. <a href="https://adriennems.medium.com/the-barcelona-diaries-ep-1-promising-young-women-d72efde1b550">Click Here</a>