I’m sure you’re all sick of hearing about The Fault in Our Stars after last summer’s obsession with it, so here let me talk about it some more. If you know anything about The Fault in Our Stars you know that part of the movie, arguably the best part, takes place in Amsterdam. Whenever I told people that I was… Read more →
Category: Madrid Study Abroad
The Obligatory Food Blog
Even though I consider myself a “foodie,” I’ve never been someone who takes pictures of my food and probably never will be. I don’t know if that’s because I don’t take many pictures in general or because I just don’t understand what I’ll do with a picture of French toast a month down the road. I don’t have Instagram, so… Read more →
Top 5 Spanish Cultural Differences I’ve Noticed
1. Handwashing People don’t always wash their hands here after leaving the bathroom, but I don’t think this is necessarily a choice. Of all the dozens I’ve been to, only a few have had hand soap and of those only a couple have had both hand soap and a way to dry your hands. I asked my host mom about… Read more →
My Not-So-Bad Weekend Alone
I’ve always considered myself an outgoing introvert. I love talking to people, but I often find myself needing to recharge after time spent in a group. But last weekend, I was overcharged. I’d spent so much time alone back in America, that what I really wanted was to be with people, to think about someone else’s life for a while.… Read more →
Sevilla: The Hardest Trip I’ve Ever Taken
I think that most often the hardest things in life are the ones you don’t expect to be hard. They start off good and lull you into a false sense of security. That was how Sevilla was for me. I woke up Friday morning with plenty of time to get to the train station where we departed for Sevilla. This… Read more →
Being Sick Sucks
So if there’s one thing I can take away from living abroad it’s that being sick abroad sucks and inspires intense longing for home. I know this because I’ve had the flu for the past week, which explains why I haven’t been writing as much as usual. Last Friday my friends and I went out to El Kapital, which is… Read more →
Small Scale Traveling in Albuñuelas
There’s something I like to call small scale traveling versus large scale traveling. You could consider this the difference between spending a week in New York City seeing all the attractions and spending a week in Greenwich Village. I love both of these modes of travel. You kind of have to do the first type of touristy traveling to… Read more →
Recording Your Memories–La Alhambra
This post is probably going to be an amalgam of a few thoughts I’ve had in the past few days, but I guess that’s a good representation of this experience of studying abroad. So many things happen each day that it’s really hard to put it into words, but I’m going to try. On Tuesday, our group went to El… Read more →
I Forgot the Bocadillos!
Remember last time when I said that there will be bad days, well I didn’t exactly have a bad day, but I did feel my first wave of homesickness and feeling down about myself and my progress. And it’s all because of a sandwich…let me explain. Our group is spending a week in Granada, which is in the southern tip… Read more →
Madrid: Small Victories
If there is one thing I learned from traveling Europe with my mom, it’s that travel is not easy. Sure, it’s fun and rewarding, but definitely not easy. Something that my mom said to me before I came to Madrid, and I think it’s pretty brilliant, is that not every day in Madrid is going to be good. Just because… Read more →