Our last and most recent field trip took us through the area called Raval. By living and studying here the past few months I’ve learned constantly how much the 1992 Summer Olympic Games helped change the entire landscape, and outside view of Barcelona. We started on the street parallel to Las Ramblas and worked our way into an area that used to be full of drugs and prostitutes, yet prior to the 1992 Summer Olympics, they turned the entire area around. Now a place where skateboarders hang out, and an outdoor bar where a lot of college students hang out, it is no longer the bad part of town that many once knew it as. It was also nice to see the area where many different types of people all ages, nationalities live close to the skateboard area. Also seeing how many of the residents in that area being fed up with the bars in that area being loud at late hours and hanging their words of resentment over their balconies all around that area. It was my first time in this area and I had already been living here for three months. It would have been nicer to have seen this area before as I, along with a few of my other friends spoke about how it would have been nice to hang out in that area more often. But I’ve also realized that there are so many different areas in the city of Barcelona that it is impossible to discover them all, let alone know what restaurants, bars, and hang out spots to go to. Although the area was mostly cleaned up, on our walk back to class there were still a few areas that weren’t as redone as the main areas.
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