Whilst sipping a pint of de Koninck at about 1:00am in Croxley's Beer Garden down on Avenue B in Manhattan, who did I run into but La Tuna de Derecho de Barçelona!!! Thorntonians will remember them as the group of law students from Barcelona that provided us with an evening of song and sangria in the Library way back in the fall of 2000. The funny costume, the guitars, the lively Catalonian folk tunes, it's all apparently part of the academic tradition of the universities over in Spain.
Anyhow, it was quite interesting talking to a drunken Spaniard in a perhaps seventeenth-century academic costume at such an hour. I'm pretty sure I managed to use all my nifty Spanish phrases, e.g. "Dondé esta la biblioteca?", "Me gusto los crustaceos", and "Mis pantalones estan en fuego."
