Beach Day 2010

Beach Day 2010! Every year we arrange an end of year event for everyone to hang out before the final exams and summer holidays.

This year, the student council would like to invite you to Castelldefels where we will be in a MORE SPACIOUS beach, cleaner, less people and chills. Some students are also arranging a football tournament.

Football Tournament: Please sign up here for your team! (at least 3 per team)

The superlatives will be awarded and we will pop champagne!!!!!!!!

How to get there with public transport: Go to Sants Train station, there will be train going to Castelldefels every 10 mins.

Sants Estació

Castelldefels Station and Beach

See you there!

Open Museum Night in Barcelona 15-05-10

Last Saturday was a night where most of the museums in Barcelona were opened to the public! Obviously the first type of museum that comes to your mind is the Picasso, Caixa Forum in Placa Espanya, CCCB… … but think outside the ‘touristic box’! There are crazy science museums with mad performance and even magic shows! Here’s a list of the museums opened last weekend.

Click on the images below to get more information about the event! Or click here for videos

CaixaForum
CCCB-Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
CosmoCaixa
Fundació Joan Miró
Fundació Antoni Tàpies
Jardí Botànic de Barcelona
La Capella
La Pedrera – Fundació Caixa Catalunya
La Virreina
MACBA-Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Museu Barbier-Mueller d’Art Precolombí
Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya
Museu d’Història de Catalunya
MHCB-Museu d’Història de la ciutat de Barcelona
Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona
Museu de la Música
Museu Etnológic
Museu Frederic Marés
MMB-Museu Marítim de Barcelona
MNAC-Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya
Museu Picasso

To avoid the impossible queues and overcrowded ‘hot spots’, my friends and I went to visit CosmoCaixa where they exhibited science and magic. It’s actually just 5 mins walking from our Uni! It was simply mind blowing and unforgettable..!! Everything you have never thought of were there! They compared brains, did illusion experiments, had magic shows and most amazingly they had a real AMAZON. At the bottom of the building, they made an indoor amazon where birds and inserts were free and it was always raining! I’m still angry at myself for not bringing a camera…

It was one of the funniest nights I had in Barcelona, it’s really cool to have these trips with friends and not go to bars and clubs on a Sat night for a change. ; )

The next open night will be on the 31st of May, so don’t miss it!

Here are some pictures of CosmoCaixa, a place worth visiting on any day

Spanish News in English

If you are living in Barcelona and wants to know what’s going on around you but you have trouble reading the Spanish newspaper, check out this website http://www.spanishnews.es, it´s completely in English!

This coming summer… New non-smoking law in Spain!

The title explains all.

The Spanish government’s new law: No smoking will be allowed in any Public Area, starting June 2010. This does not only include streets and parks but also bars, restaurants, hotels, clubs, airports and train stations.

So to second-hand smokers: hooray! No stinky clothes and hair.

However I think that it’s going to take more than a sign to stop people from smoking, we have some very heavy smokers in Barcelona!

For more information, check out this blog in oh-barcelona

La Salle Festival Dinner – the avatar video!

Finalists for the Business Innovation Park Ideas Competition!

ProtectIN
SHOWS!
QTJuegas
iZone
LiteraGame
2Real
HouseInHand
Yellow Web
ModPow SmartGarden
Virtual Market Online

Congratulations to the winners! They will be receiving consultancies and lessons from the technova park to further develop their ideas. In July, they will decide the 3 winners. Good luck!

International food day

There are 10 countries registered to cook and make drinks for the international food day all set to satisfy your taste buds!

Luxembourg – Jil, Ralph, Tun, Steve, Goy
Spain – Sara, Marcos, Martin
Italy – Marisol
Norway/Sweden – Isabelle, Linda
China – Grace
Mexico – Luis, Marco, Marleth
USA – Aileen, Rachel, Erica
South Africa – Andrew
France
Great food, decent music and BEBIDAS!!!

Where to buy English Books in Barcelona?

There are quite a few places in Barcelona where you can find English Books on sale. There are the official book stores in big shopping malls such as El Corte Ingles in Portal Del Angel or Fnac in Pl. Catalunya/ L’Illa, Diagonal stock new books at import prices.

For newspapers and magazines in English you will find them in the common touristic kiosks (newspaper stands) in the center.

I prefer to go to smaller book stores that are located in the local neighborhoods that are less advertised. I think you can receive better varieties and can also get better recommendation from the owners rather than just ‘the better sellers‘.

Here are two I would recommend:

Come-in English Bookstore and Hibernian

For more bookstores in Barcelona, click here

Sant Jordi’s Day

Click on the picture above to learn about the story of ‘The Lovers Day’ in Barcelona.

Today is Sant Jord’s Day! For those who are new to this tradition Catalan celebration, it is similar to Valentine’s Day in Catalonia where girls receive roses and gives books to guys. They don’t have to be your lover but someone you care about like a friend or people you work with. Barcelona they’ve been exchanging them on April 23 since the 15th century! St Jordi’s (George’s) Day is also England’s National Day. In Barcelona, hundreds of flower stands selling roses and makeshift bookstalls are hastily set up for the occasion. By the end of the day, some four million roses and 400,000 books are purchased in the name of love, registering half of the total yearly book sales of Catalonia on this day alone!

If you have some free time, take a walk on the famous Las Ramblas or Ramble Catalonia and feel the spirit of this lovely day!

Here’s a great site about Sant Jordi’s Day

International Food Day next Tuesday!

International food day are always favored in La Salle. It is a day where students from different nationalities make they traditional food and sell them to everyone. We spend the day eating, drinking, enjoying the sun with friends… A pretty great day!

This year the international food day is on the 27th of April. (Second day of La Salle Festival Week) so sign up to prepare your dish or join us and have a good time!!