After arriving in Madrid, you will notice that your visa is actually only good for 90 days and you’re thinking, “but wait! I will be here the whole year! What do I do?!” The answer is that you need to get a TIE or a tarjeta de identidad extranjera, which is basically your foreign identity card and […]
As someone with naturally curly hair (see bottom of post), but someone that also treats their hair (I get ‘perms’ done to minimize the curly situation), and also as someone who spends a decent amount of time in the sun (running, walking, at the beach), I am no stranger to dry, brittle hair. Since I […]
In my opinion, one of the biggest “road blocks” to obtaining Spanish citizenship due to Sephardic origin are the two exams. They are two things that require time, commitment, and preparation. I haven’t taken the DELE A2 exam yet, but I have takes the CCSE Culture and History exam. I thought that I would share […]
Before I moved to Spain, I planned on writing all of these “how to” posts for getting your life together here. Guess what?! I don’t have my life together and those posts haven’t really happened, but today, TODAY! I do have a “how to” post for you. For whatever random reason, you might need to get […]
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 […]