Buenos dias amigos! If you are just checking in, start with Part I of Our Trip Down South- Sevilla. After two nights in Seville, we hop, skipped, and jumped our way over to Cordoba, a small town worth seeing, even just for a day. We didn’t realize when we planned (really, my mom didn’t realize […]
Our Trip Down South: Sevilla
Hi! Things have been kind of silent around here for the last two weeks, largely due to the fact that my favorite people in the entire world have been here in Spain with me! My parents arrived two weeks ago and during the first week, we hung low and explored Madrid. It was like seeing […]
5 Christmas Cookie and Dessert Recipes to Make this Week.
The holiday season makes me want to BAKE lots of goodies and hand them out to all of my favorite people. I have made a couple batches of chocolate chip cookies this year, and last week I made Jam Thumbprint Cookies, but this week, I’m planning to do a lot more. Here are 5 Christmas […]
5 Things to Do Over Christmas Break.
Hello! How was your weekend? My weekend was so good! It began on Thursday night with drinks, Friday was spent doing my normal Friday thing (plus an intercambio at a cafe) and then a farewell dinner with Annie and Kristen. Annie left for the U.S on Saturday morning, so we had dinner at Lateral and […]
What I Ate Wednesday: Madrid Style
Wow, it has been for-ev-er since I have done a What I Ate Wednesday post (and actually, this draft has been in my dashboard for over a month). I used take pictures of my food every day, but these days, I find myself hardly ever taking pictures of my food. Usually because by the time […]
Weekend in Belgium: Ghent and Bruges, Part II
Hello! If you haven’t already read it, here is PART ONE of this post, where you can read and see pictures from our two days in Ghent, Belgium. Bruges The night we arrived in Bruges, we checked into our hostel and unloaded our bags. In Bruge, we stayed at Bauhaus, which is a St. Christopher’s […]
A Weekend in Belgium: Ghent and Bruges
Belgium Break-Down Where we went: Ghent, Belgium and Bruges, Belgium Cost of airfare: Since we ended up purchasing two sets of tickets, this was quite expensive- 106 Euro + 170 Euro = 276 Euro, round trip Cost of travel within Belgium: 43 Euro Cost of accommodations: About 75 Euro Cost of food: About 45 Euro, […]
Friendsgiving I & II 2015…and Lately.
I want to say Happy Monday! But no….I hate Mondays. (Started writing this Monday…it is now Wednesday morning and I forced myself out of bed an hour earlier to get this written and posted once and for all. I don’t mind, I get to enjoy my morning with a cup of hot coffee, listening to […]
The Budget: Feeling Less Poor.
Well, I have officially been here two months and it has taken just as long to feel like I have found “my groove” not only in my day-to-day life, but in my spending, as well. I still feel #poor, but not nearly as much as before. And I have since remedied that #homeless situation. Life, […]
Say What? II
When teaching a group of six 5-year-olds In the middle of a lesson about rooms in the house, one of them says, “What the f*ck!” And then they all repeat, “What the f*ck!” And they are cracking up. I tell them they can’t say that and it’s a bad word and they all look at […]