A Thing For Wor(l)ds

I was recently asked by fellow Spain blogger Corbett Walsh to write about my experience with the North American Language and Culture Assistants (NALCA) program. He is compiling a great list of testimonials for English teaching programs in Spain, so I recommend checking out ...Read More

Happy Valentine’s Day! (And Mommy, happy birthday!) Since Basque men were voted the least likely to flirt in all of Spain, I can unfortunately not claim budding love on this sappiest of holidays. I can, however, share a lesson plan I did with my ...Read More

On Wednesday my entire high school took a field trip. It wasn’t your typical visit to the Exploratorium or a wastewater sewage plant (why did we do that in 9th grade, budget cuts??) Instead, we all hiked up a mountain to a small hermitage ...Read More

Today is my 100th post! I’ve been updating for a year an a half, have about four consistent readers (2 parents, 1 sister, 1 random—God love ’em), and can honestly say that writing has become my biggest passion here in Bilbao. In 2014 my ...Read More

I have a group of several Italian friends here, so while they’re busy fattening me up with weekly homemade meals of gnocchi, lasagna, pasta carbonara, polenta and tiramasu, I’ve learned a few do’s and don’ts of Italian cooking. Do: Measure out your pasta. About ...Read More

After a great and freezing three days in Edinburgh, Luc and I caught a sleepless overnight bus to London. There we were staying with our friend Emily, who was Luc’s roommate during our year in Granada. Her parents live in an adorable flat in ...Read More

The second stop on my Christmas tour through Europe was Edinburgh, which I’d been dying to visit since I hadn’t been getting quite my fill of rain in Bilbao. In Scotland I had planned to reunite with my friend Luc, whom I met studying abroad ...Read More