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Culture Shock and Environmental Differences in Italy
I am starting to feel the “culture shock”. This morning, I sat in the teacher’s lounge and felt as if I was in slow motion. I could hear the Italian chatter and could see the prof’s buzzing around me yet...
My Host Family House in Spain
My Spanish host family lives outside of the town of Granja in the country, but it is only about a 2 minute drive. The house is a beautiful one story house made out of stone.
Jai Yen
I know you’re about to be very confused, but I have changed locations on you. Rather than typing away from the back corner of the Coffee Garden, I have moved next door to the Noodle Garden (yes, this is actually...
8 Major Life Lessons Learned in Thailand
I don’t always know what I want to write about. It’s actually pretty hard to figure that out. I am not a very structured person and I also prefer to go with the flow especially when it comes to journaling.
Meat, Meat, and More Meat in Spain
In Spain everything is made homemade. I experienced this first hand when my family bought a pig, had it butchered, cleaned, and packaged right at their house!
The Life and Times of a Farang in Bang Pa In
As you can tell from the cover photo of this blog post, I’ve become a science expert while teaching little kids about trees and shapes. In other news, I saw the two smartest kids in my P3 Math class looking...
A little FOMO never hurt anyone
For the first time in my life I am finally experiencing this thing called FOMO that people have been talking about for years. FOMO…fear of missing out. Back in the US I never experienced FOMO. I think I had the opposite of...
Studying in the Spanish Town of Granja
My host family lives in the town of Granja. This is a small town located in the southeastern part of Spain. This town is so small it only has 2,000 people, and the main street has 4 shops and about...
Meeting My Spanish Host Family
Thursday was my last day in Madrid and I took a bus to meet my family. They are all so nice and understanding with my Spanish! There are 3 girls, Ana is 18, Maria is 16, and Andrea is 17.
6 months & School Year Ending
I haven’t even begun to talk about my trip to Japan and China yet and I have no excuses except that so much happened on that amazing trip that I don’t even know where to begin on that journey of...