Surviving My First Week of Teaching English in Spain

I survived my first week as a language assistant teaching English in Spain after a year and a half of not “working” in the traditional sense. But I was anxious!

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3 Warm Winter Destinations & 3 Cool Winter Activities

As winter will be quickly approaching in the coming months, I’ve already put on my winter thinking cap for travel plans and activities during the cold months.

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Will I Meet the Challenge of Teaching?

I begin my new job as an English teaching assistant next month. The anticipation has me wondering if this something I’ll be good at and enjoy or totally regret.

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Antwerp’s “To Russia With Love” Kiss In

Auston and I have never been huge gay rights activists though we have plenty of friends who take on that role and some who are even employed in that area of work. To them, and to all the countless others that we don’t know personally, we are of course eternally grateful for the work they do. We and the rest of the LGBT community directly benefit from their hard efforts. However, I’ve just never been innately passionate about it. It’s odd I suppose since it directly affects me, but it’s the same for many others. Just because you’re woman, or a minority, or an immigrant doesn’t mean you’re working day and night for your specific rights even though you clearly need and benefit from them. We all take on different passions, hobbies, works and activities. And we support one another when necessary.

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Spain’s La Tomatina: Tips for All Those Tomatoes

Read valuable tips from our experience at La Tomatina – the annual festival and tomato fight each summer near Valencia Spain.

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Visiting Antwerp By Bike

Antwerp is quite bike-friendly so we took that fact as an opportunity to explore the city by Velo bike. Even better, we signed up entirely via smartphone!

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Visiting Stockholm’s Gay Pride On a Budget

Sweden is one of the most expensive countries of the EU. Yet we managed to make it one of our most cost effective European trips by volunteering at Gay Pride.

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Famous Cities in Germany Worth Exploring

Planning a trip to Germany is well worth the effort. Check out these 4 famous German cities and see what you can discover in this fantastic country.

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The Gayest Weekend in Antwerp, Belgium

As we exited the central train station to step into the city of Antwerp for the first time, we felt immediately wrapped in the colorful embrace of a multitude of rainbow flags. We have been to a fair number of gay pride events over the past two years – four last year and five this year which we later learned was unimpressive compared to the ten plus pride events another American expat living in Germany had attended this year – but we have never seen a city so decked out in rainbows before. You really would have thought Rainbow Brite and her gayer-than-unicorns-sidekick-horse, Starlite, had been hired to decorate the city.

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Wet & Wild Water War at La Batalla Naval

Spain is fond of its festivals and some of the best involve battles. Batalla Naval is a great water fight in the neighborhood of Vallecas outside central Madrid.

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