This post should be titled “How to Teach Your First Private English Class…When You Have No F***ing Idea What You’re Doing!” Because today I taught a private English class and I a) have no experience teaching and b) don’t have any clue HOW to teach! The day after I got to Madrid, I was told […]
Run Retiro, Run
Good Morning/Afternoon! I am live blogging from a little coffee shop in Lavapies! I needed to get out of the house- it’s small and quite dark and I think my host mom has a mild case of the hoardies. But she is super nice, so that’s all that matters 🙂 Besides going to get dinner […]
My New Foster Home and Some Life Lessons.
Like I said a couple of days ago, since we were evicted from the hotel (really our stay just ended), I am staying with a host family for the next week while I continue to sniff out an apartment.Eviction via Instagram. The outside of my foster home. It was only 95Euro for the week (to […]
Homeless with Peanut Butter.
It’s funny to think about when we got here (a week ago?! It feels like a month) people would sit around chatting about how “they are going to live in La Latina” or “want a cute flat with a nice balcony in the room”…me. And now you look around in you see people pulling their […]
24 Euro Later.
And I am no longer eating 100% like a homeless person! Exhibit A- Today’s lunch! After shopping! Exhibit B- Today’s dinner!!!! I missed you, vegetables. It seems like many things in the supermarkets here are a bit cheaper than back at home. I was able to get a lot (seems like a lot to me) […]
Random Madrid Musings
Good Morning (if you’re in the US) and Good Afternoon (if you’re in Madrid!), I’m taking a little break from piso-hunting to chat about nothing really. I’m actually waiting for my roommate to leave so that I can make calls to different apartment owners. She speaks beautiful, fluent Spanish and I’m too self-conscious to make […]
How the Housing Search is Going and My First Time in a Club with 6 Floors.
ndfobr0th-4h-9dcjkndjgrhg-9ugihfhkbdfbfd !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Like that, but with a few screams, some hair pulling, and tears. Frustrating doesn’t even begin to describe this entire process. It’s not even that I am having absolutely no luck finding a place to live, but more the fact that we are given the impression that it’s “easy”, “totally doable” and “not […]
One Step Closer.
*Written this morning* Good morning, or if you’re reading from the United States….it’s 3 am, It’s 8:30 am here and my roommate and I just got back from breakfast. A HUGE breakfast!! The hotel where we are staying provides it and I have put on at least 3 pounds each day from breakfast alone, not […]
I Made It.
**I have a few crappy photos to share, but my iPhone won’t connect to Gmail! I’ll figure it out soon! Also, please add me on WhatsApp!! Here I am, sitting in my hotel in Madrid!! I just got here, I’m kind of exhausted and also kind of buzzed off of the sugary breakfast that the […]
When It’s Time To Pack
Go to the beach instead! Because you will definitely pack, even if it is the day before you are moving to another country. Even if you have to pack and repack that bag 3 times, and eventually decided a duffel (how do you spell duffle?) bag would be better. Even though that duffle bag has […]