Living Abroad – Fake Flamenco

bilingual, En español, Living Abroad, Spanish Culture and Language, travel

Well Known by the Freight Office?

Part III of Rebecca’s Spain Stories When I awoke early the next morning, my first thought was of the freight office, not of Gaudí architecture or sightseeing. I bounded downstairs to ask the receptionist to dial the number. No answer. An hour later, at eight, a gruff man answered. I stuttered reading my claim number […]

history, Life as a Woman, Living Abroad, Spanish Culture and Language, travel

4th Century Galician Woman Travel Blogger

First, thank you to Ana Linares Gil, for her tip about this tremendous woman traveler of the fourth century. Researchers think Egeria was the early travel correspondent’s name, from Galaecia (Galicia, Spain). She wrote letters to friends in a convent in the years 381 to 384. In the 1800s, the historian Gian Francesco Gamurrini found […]

bilingual, En español, Humor, Living Abroad, Spanish Culture and Language, The Americas

Who’s Got it Right?

Driving on the Left or the Right? Across the world, 75 countries drive on the left and 165 on the right. A high number of countries from the former British Empire make up those 75, with many exceptions like the United States, Canada and Belize. All Spanish speaking countries in the world drive on the […]

bilingual, Chile, Humor, Living Abroad, Spanish Culture and Language

Joke’s on Me 2

Learning to converse in another language keeps me humble. Beginning with English, as a child I made up funny words. I’d call the small blue round Midwestern fruit, bluebodies. My dad’s bluebody pancakes still are a family favorite. In first year high school Spanish, I wanted to say, “I’m embarrassed” Tengo vergüenza. Instead I said, “I’m pregnant.” Estoy […]

bilingual, Humor, Living Abroad, Spanish Culture and Language, writing

14th Try’s the Charm?

I’ve officially entered the Book Pipeline unpublished manuscript contest for 2021. Many thanks to a friend for encouraging me to take a chance. The first three chapters and a synopsis of Supergringa in Spain: A Coming-of-Age Memoir are in pdf format in the contest inbox. Supergringa is set in the fall semester of my junior […]

En español, Living Abroad

9/11 Far from Home

A day the earth stood still and CNN was the only channel to watch. I wrote this post in 2018, I am sharing it today because it still holds true. In my parents’ generation, it was where you were the days that President Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Junior were shot. For those of […]