As promised I’m back with the second half to the post I made last week, but this time I’m covering the things that the United States could learn from Spain. I know that the first half of this series was a little harsh on Spain, but give it a few months and I’ll probably be looking at Spain with rose… Read more →
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Copenhagen: A Much Needed Reunion
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you might remember my very first blog post. In it, I wrote about a carnival that I went to with my mom and the spur of the moment rollercoaster ride that reminded me that I get my sense of adventure from my mom. If you haven’t been reading my blog for… Read more →
Madrid: Nostalgia in the City
I am such a nostalgia-prone person that I actively avoid situations that may trigger it. I used to cry at the end of every school year, already nostalgic for a time that had only just ended. I can look at an old movie ticket and remember my first date. I used to keep these mementos on display, but for my… Read more →
Weekend Trips: Córdoba, Salamanca, Santander
I used to have a “go big or go home” sort of attitude towards traveling. If I needed to be back at work on Monday, I came home at 4am on Monday morning and went straight to work in my travel clothes. I always tried to maximize my time away, but as I have gotten older and more prone to… Read more →
Fulbright: My First Week of School
I know that this will sound classist, and it is. I was raised by a slightly classist father for whom being a nurse or paralegal was not enough. I had to be a doctor or a lawyer. This is part of the reason that I never considered teaching as a profession. I was raised with the mentality of “those who… Read more →
Fulbright: Cultural Discomfort in Logroño
So I forgot a few things about Spain, cultural things I mean. It’s strange, but I am experiencing a more noticeable culture shock this time around than when I was studying abroad in Madrid two years ago. Perhaps it is the fact that now I am living in Logroño, a small town compared to booming Madrid, or maybe it is… Read more →
Fulbright: Regresando a España
I’ve never been one for inspirational quotes. I find them tacky and usually a little bit like a false epiphany, but I have recently come to feel the meaning behind one of John Lennon’s most famous lyrics. They are words that I have seen all over Tumblr, Pinterest, and on random prints in TJ Maxx, strangely enough. In his song,… Read more →
Study Abroad: And So It Ends
And so it ended where it started…at my kitchen table. I wrote the very first Pre-Departure blog post at my kitchen table, and now 6 months later I’m hovered over it again attempting to put into words everything that I’ve gone through in this time. Surely, I would have had a life changing experience regardless, but my father passing away… Read more →
Madrid VS Barcelona
Before I came to Spain, whenever I told people I was studying abroad in Madrid, they’d say, Oh, you’ll love Barcelona. This was mildly annoying, because I wanted people to tell me that about Madrid, but the fact is that less people visit Madrid since it’s isolated in the middle of the country and is located in what is effectively… Read more →
Santiago de Compostela: A Galician Goodbye
Just as our study abroad program started off with a group trip to Granada in Southern Spain, it ended with a group trip to Galicia in Northwest Spain. Our university always does this trip at the end, because our program director Ramiro is from Galicia. It was the trip I’d been looking forward to the most, for several reasons. First,… Read more →