This is going to be different than my usual blog post, and it will be a little more personal. But I feel compelled to speak on the issue of Sterigenics and ETO. As you probably already know, I recently came home for a while after living away for the past few years. You may not know that home for me… Read more →
As promised I’m back with the second half to the post I made last week, but this time I’m covering the things that the United States could learn from Spain. I know that the first half of this series was a little harsh on Spain, but give it a few months and I’ll probably be looking at Spain with rose… Read more →
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you might remember my very first blog post. In it, I wrote about a carnival that I went to with my mom and the spur of the moment rollercoaster ride that reminded me that I get my sense of adventure from my mom. If you haven’t been reading my blog for… Read more →
There’s something about returning to a place that makes you think about who you were the last time you were there. I don’t love repeat travel, because to me there always seems to be somewhere new that I want to go, and I can’t justify visiting somewhere again. But this month, I went back to Greece, a place that mesmerized… Read more →
Be honest for a second, no one’s going to judge you. Do you know where Andorra is? What language do they speak there? There’s a good chance that you did not know the answer to those questions, and that’s okay. I didn’t until I studied abroad in Spain three years ago. Ever since hearing about it, I have wanted to… Read more →
I am such a nostalgia-prone person that I actively avoid situations that may trigger it. I used to cry at the end of every school year, already nostalgic for a time that had only just ended. I can look at an old movie ticket and remember my first date. I used to keep these mementos on display, but for my… Read more →
I used to have a “go big or go home” sort of attitude towards traveling. If I needed to be back at work on Monday, I came home at 4am on Monday morning and went straight to work in my travel clothes. I always tried to maximize my time away, but as I have gotten older and more prone to… Read more →
All through childhood and adolescence, I was an introvert, drawing my energy from solitude. It’s only recently that I have come to identify as an extrovert. I don’t know what exactly caused this change, but now after a long week and stressful week I prefer to talk to or meet friends for dinner or coffee instead of retreat to my… Read more →
I know that this will sound classist, and it is. I was raised by a slightly classist father for whom being a nurse or paralegal was not enough. I had to be a doctor or a lawyer. This is part of the reason that I never considered teaching as a profession. I was raised with the mentality of “those who… Read more →
So I forgot a few things about Spain, cultural things I mean. It’s strange, but I am experiencing a more noticeable culture shock this time around than when I was studying abroad in Madrid two years ago. Perhaps it is the fact that now I am living in Logroño, a small town compared to booming Madrid, or maybe it is… Read more →