Bilbao, Spain…home to the Guggenheim (along with many other modern art museums), quaint little parks, many modern edify, and, at least temporarily, the Cirque Du Soliel show “Dralion.” It’s an under-rated city that actually has grass…something I haven’t seen ever in Rome and probably didn’t witness for 2 months before going to Spain (other than in Scotland, of course). Seriously, you miss grass and nature when the only type of objects around you are stone buildings and over-crowded paved walk-ways.
But moving on…The Guggenheim is simply amazing. It’s not the original Gug, that is in New York, this is a new Gug, one of five that are located in New York, Venice, Bilbao, Berlin, and finally Las Vegas (constructed/created in that order). They have some amazing stuff there, such as their current exhibit entitled The Matter Of Time (http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/ingles/exposiciones/las_exposiciones.htm). It’s a giant exhibit of steel sheets lined up next to each other, tall enough to walk through. Yes, that sounds really lame, but it’s pretty cool when you’re actually there and walking in what is like a maze of rusty steel.
However, there is also the kind of art there where you just go ‘huh? I don’t get it, how is cardboard with lots of stables in it art?’ So there is always that kind of thing to look forward at these types of museums, lol.
Cirque Du Soliel (www.cirquedusoliel.com) is also simply amazing. Every single show I’ve been to of theirs has been fantastic and always makes me want to go again. They do the most amazing things be it juggling, acrobatics, ribbon flying, or just crazy walking around the stage to some funky music by the live band. If you haven’t seen one of their shows, you should make it your mission to do so within the next year. They’re all over the country (and world) so you really have no excuse. I would try to describe some of the stunts/acts they did, but printed text simply cannot do justice to the amazement you witness 50 feet away from your seat. Go see one of their shows; you’ll be hooked, I swear.
Other than a simply amazing weekend, I’ve had the most ridiculous amount of work to do over the past week and will continue to have such a burden basically until I take my finals. I think my marketing teacher may not make it to see next week…something I heard about her falling down some stairs? Not really sure. However, the really condensed time span of work is over with and completed…for now. I still have a twenty page international business plan to construct, a ten page art history paper to write, not to mention the financial analysis I have to which hasn’t been even explained to us yet, but is due in three weeks…which also has to be ten pages. Then there’s finals to take into account and the fact that I will be gone the next two weekends to Norway and Ischgl, respectively. The teachers here should realize that learning is only a by-product of students coming to Roma to “study”…unless you’re Frank & Karen reading this, in which case I only came here for the intensive studies and just happen to have the whole cultural thing of Rome and Europe going for me by accident.
But anyhoo, I do believe the hard part is over simply because there aren’t 4 to 5 things due at the same time anymore. Plus, Norway should be super duper fun this weekend. I’m going with my roommate Lars & his gurlfriend Emily to his place in Oslo for the long weekend to celebrate some thanksgiving Norway style…you know, with some fjords and hills, maybe a few trolls while I’m at it. Also, I basically have the best tour guide since Lars is from Oslo and Norwegian is his native language…which makes communicating on my end a WHOLE lot easier. Multi-linguistic ability is highly under-rated…especially when you’re in a place that primarily speaks another language…like Southern California.
Well, alrighty, I think this should do it for now…two of these in two days is pretty intense for you guys, I know, so I’ll leave it at this…you’ll be hearing from me post Oslo, hopefully with a beautiful blond in my arms to help distract me from writing to everyone.
Ciao Belli,
Jon Boy
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