You never know how you feel about the things that surround you daily until you’re taken away from them. Sometimes absence makes the heart grow fonder, and sometimes it makes you realize flaws you hadn’t seen before. I never thought I would actually start to appreciate the U.S. more when I went abroad. [...]
January 2009
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January 22, 2009
January 12, 2009
One bottle of wine at a grocery store: 99 cents. One Estrella beer, sold by the guys on every corner of La Rambla: 1 Euro (50 centimos if you bargain). One bottle of water, because the tap water tastes like soap and they don’t serve it at restaurants anyway: 1.50 Euros. The ability to drink [...]
January 10, 2009
As I step off the plane and walk through the airport (looking down to make sure I was following the green line marking my luggage pick-up terminal), I can hardly contain the grin creeping across my face. I am here. In Spain. In the country I will be living in for the next half-year. [...]