Buenas tardes! Happy Friday! How was this week for you? This week absolutely flew by for me, thanks to working…un poco 😉 I got super lucky with my hours this week, so I had a lot of free time to do things that I actually enjoy doing. It was a nice little break and a […]
Five Things That Are Making Me Happy Right Now.
Good morning and happy FRIDAY! To say that I am happy that today is Friday would be a complete understatement. I am over-the-moon 2x happy that today is Friday. To be honest, I was in some kind a weird funk this whole week, which left me feeling off…not happy. I spent the week in a […]
How to Solicit a Social Security Number in Madrid
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 […]
Other Things I Did With My Parents. And All That Finger Lickin’ Food.
I can’t believe my parents trip to Spain has come and gone so quickly. Seriously, it wasn’t so long ago that I was frantically SPRINTING to the metro to get them because my alarm never went off (and my computer was dead and it was dark out so I had no clue what time it […]
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 […]
So Many Updates.
Happy, happy, happy, HAPPY FRIDAY! This week has literally flown by. But at the same time, last Friday feels like a month ago. In certain ways, I feel like I am getting into a certain groove here, getting into a routine and figuring out how to navigate this city fairly easily. But then on other […]
How to Teach Your First Private English Class.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]