San Ambrosio, I’d like to introduce you to Texas

As a part of my American re-immersion, most English-isms were attempting to be cut out of my vocabulary. It involved the snapping of a hairband on my wrist and the negative reinforcement actually worked quite well to ride me of my “quites", “queues””and “propers” and reinstated some “awesomes” and a few “seriouslys.” I’d been talking about Emily and Jennifer coming to San Am for a long time now, and most...

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My One Week American Re-immersion

I don’t get a lot of American influences these days. Yes, I still watch a lot of US television, I still talk to my friends via e-mail quite frequently, and talking to my mom once a week on the phone has given me this strange Michigan twang when I talk. But my everyday life, feels less and less American. I call french fries Chips without thinking twice. I ask questions with some strange English inflection pointed out immediately...

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5 Places I Would Take a Guest to in San Ambrosio, Andalucia, Spain

This is a re-post of a guest post I wrote for GotSaga.com in January. Check out the original article here. San Ambrosio. My home. What, you've never heard of it? C'mon! At a whopping 400 citizens in a country most people have on their bucket lists but not in their backyard, I guess I understand. San Ambrosio, Andalucia, Spain. It's a place I haven't called home for very long - less than a year actually. But it's a place that has done...

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Dictionary.com is a Fortune Teller

Yes, folks. That's right. I step off my plane this morning in London, log onto my wifi and... BAM! There it is. The word of the day, for today, March 20th, 2011, the VERY DAY that I arrive back in Spain, the word of the day is noneother than the namesake of the place I live and work: Los Alamos.

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Longest Round Trip Segment Ever–I’m back in Spain!

Yes, ladies and gentlemen. That is correct. As of Sunday 3:05 PM GMT I am back in Spain! In an attempt to confuse everyone, when I left the country in October, I left on a round-trip ticket carting me from Malaga, up to London and back to New York. 6 Months later, I’m finally on my return ticket. I’m not going to lie and tell you that I wasn’t a bit nervous as I packed my giant suitcase up in Tulsa with all my crap in tow and started the haul back here, but I definitely didn’t imagine it would have this many pitfalls. I will outline them in bullet point form because A)

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Why You Should Never Send A Package to Spain

Ok, well that's a bit dramatic, I guess. But here's the story. Before I left the US in January 2011, I knew I was going to be starting a job with horses once I got to Spain. I had no intention of carting all of my riding gear through Canada, Japan, Ireland and mainland Europe before I arrived in Spain so I pre-packed a box and asked my mom to send it to me when I gave her the green light. In February, she sent the package which...

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Today, Life Changed.

Shit happens all the time. People make big decisions. Big decisions are made for people. No matter how much you try to plan your life, everyday, something happens that you don't expect. And it's how we deal with those unexpected visitors that make us unique. Our ability to handle change, in my opinion, is the most important scale we are weighed on in life...

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A Spanish Christmas – Not What You Expect

My first time spending Christmas in Europe was pretty normal. My family met me in Scotland just before Christmas Eve and we spent the holidays in Great Britain in much the same way we would have spent it back in the states. We opened presents on Christmas morning, had brunch as a family Christmas Day and then felt very English going shopping on boxing day with the millions...

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