Last year, I spent a lot of time just randomly doing Google searches to find materials for my private lessons-basically, where to find good resources for teaching ESL classes. This year, I have done a better job of finding websites that continuously have good materials for private lessons. You know, materials that don’t have random ads all […]
This weekend was amazing!! The perfect mix of super productive and fun and relaxing and crazy…all wrapped up in one. And it’s Monday evening now and I need another weekend to recover. Pheeeew! Thursday Spinning class // super sweaty Espanol en la calle class // learned about tapas in Spain Tried this // was NOT […]
Multiple people have recommended Lamucca as a great restaurant for a fun date night, so last night we gave it a go! There are multiple locations (Plaza Carlos Cambronero, Calle Prado, Calle Almagro, Calle Serrano) [#success], but they only had a last minute opening at Calle Prado. This one is near Anton Martin metro stop […]
El Columpio Address: 28010, Calle de Caracas, 10, 28010 Madrid Atmosphere: I LOVED this restaurant for their design. Seriously….#housedesigngoals Warm lights, black steel, mirrors, distressed wood, hanging plants and turquoise accents. A great place for a romantic dinner or for a night out with friends. Also, it was big, so plenty of room! Type of […]
SO. I am officially down to 299 Euros in my Spanish bank account. (I wrote this one week ago…I am actually officially down to 53 Euros but who’s counting?) Don’t ask me how it happened because I’ll literally look at my hands like a little kid looks at their hands if you take a toy […]
What was actually a last minute decision turned into a really fun day of hiking in Cercedilla with some incredible views! Kristen, her friend De and I took the 10:00 Cercanias train from Atocha station and rode for an hour and 20 minutes to Cercedilla, a northern town with amazing hiking trails! We found the […]
Do you remember last year, when I wrote that post about the various neighborhoods I might live in? I took my 10-pass ticket and went from neighborhood to neighborhood, checking it out before searching for flat at random. I didn’t want to waste my time seeing a flat when I didn’t even like the neighborhood […]
Hola! if you’re just catching up, check out Part I here. So, day two! It started with breakfast (after being woken up by the loudest street band I have ever heard in my entire life….) And then we headed to the beach. But first, we stopped in a very close-by market and walked around a […]
Hey! Look- I’m here! I pretty much disappeared for the last couple of weeks because I have been out and about and running around. I’m not really sure where the time has gone, but I have been spending a lot of time getting paperwork done (Spain and their visa process aint no joke), food shopping & prepping […]
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 […]