I’m a news writer for the Cornell Daily Sun, and when one of the editors contacted me about writing an article regarding Spanish students’ perceptions of the Gaza conflict, I was intrigued; Israel’s retaliatory rocket attacks on Gaza has sparked tremendous discussion and debate on Cornell’s campus, and I knew that I could make an [...]
I consider myself a pretty reliable, very “on time” sort of person, so my first day as a student at the University of Seville kicked my butt way far out of my comfort zone and right into a chaotic, bureaucratic mess. Classes for the Faculty of Geography and History* are located in the massive Fábrica [...]
My father works as a doctor in Philadelphia, and he’s told me many stories about how he has tried to help non-English-speaking patients feel more at ease in the hospital by doing simple things like waving to a deaf patient or by using “medical Spanish” in a consultation with a Puerto Rican patient. But until [...]