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Life in Spain

Life in Spain, Travel europe, pictures, toledo

Toledo

April 3, 2017

A few weeks ago I was able to experience the beautiful city of Toledo with my friend Andrew while he was visiting me. From architecture to history to amazing food, this day had it all! Come take a look at what we did together.

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Life in Spain, Travel europe, holiday, pictures, valencia

Valencia: Las Fallas and La Cremà

March 20, 2017

Hello all! Yesterday I went to Valencia, a city in the east of Spain on the Mediterranean coast, for the famous celebration of Las Fallas (Spanish) or Les Falles, (in Valencian). While Spain is known for it’s eccentric and wild festivals and holidays, Falles might be the most interesting of them all. It’s quite famous and definitely a “must-see while…

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Life in Spain, Travel el escorial, europe, madrid, pictures, segovia

A day in El Escorial and Segovia

January 27, 2017

This past weekend I took a day trip to Segovia and El Escorial with Zoa, one of my close Spanish friends, and her father. Both Segovia and El Escorial are historical cities within an hour from Madrid, which make them popular candidates for day trips.

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Life in Spain christmas, daily life, holiday, madrid, spanish culture

A Spanish Christmas: Día de Los Reyes Magos

January 15, 2017

This year I was able to spend part of the Christmas season here in Spain and learn more about their culture and traditions during the holiday seasons, especially during the Día de Los Reyes Magos, so I wanted to share some of these experiences and what I’ve learned about it all.

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Food, Life in Spain daily life, holiday, madrid, thanksgiving

Friendsgiving in Madrid and quick update

November 26, 2016

Hey everyone! I wanted to write a quick post considering I haven’t wrote anything in a long time. The past couple weeks have been pretty routine, so there hasn’t been anything I could think of writing about. I’ve got a couple ideas in the works for some posts in another week or two. I don’t…

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Life in Spain daily life, europe, field trip, madrid, teaching

A day at La Granja: My first field trip

November 7, 2016

Today I got to accompany my classes on their first field trip of the year so I figured I would write about it now while the day is still fresh in my mind. Last week one of the other teachers told me that first and second grades were taking a trip to “La Granja” (Spanish…

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ESL, Life in Spain ESL resources, resources, seasons, teaching, weather

Teaching weather using where I’m from: Ohio!

November 1, 2016

Hey everyone! I wanted to write a quick post on something that I did today while doing some lesson planning for school. I figured that since there’s a plethora of cool ESL resources out there I would write about any cool ideas I use or come up with to add to that in the hopes…

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Life in Spain, Music area 42, club, concert, live music, nightlife, toledo

Steve Aoki in “Toledo”

October 24, 2016

Hello readers! This past weekend I took a day trip to Toledo to see Steve Aoki play in a club, so I wanted to write a quick post on the day as it was an absolute blast!

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My passport, safe and sound!
Life in Spain, Travel

Losing My Passport in Madrid: The Nightmare Before London

September 30, 2016

If you’re anything like me, just reading the title of this post probably gave you a mini heart attack. As the title suggests, earlier this week I went through some of the roughest 24 hours I’ve had in a while, so I wanted to write a blog post about it. Honestly, part of me felt like…

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