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Remote Year

I Thought My Spanish Was Improving. Then I Moved to Argentina.

I was feeling pretty proud of my progress in picking up Spanish along the way as I travelled through Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. It was slow going at first, but I felt like I was hitting my stride when I traveled to Arequipa, Peru with my mom. She’ll be the first to admit that foreign languages are not her forte, which meant that I…

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That Time I Spent An Entire Week’s Food Budget on A Single Meal #worthit

This weekend I saw a sign that said (in Spanish), “I want to be the lime in your ceviche.” Considering how much it resonated with me, I realized that Peruvian food might just be my love language.So when I had the opportunity to join some friends for a dinner at Maido, the eighth best restaurant in the world (and the second best in Latin America), according…

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Plata o Plomo o Paintball

I’m feeling a little conflicted about how much fun I had yesterday. It was our first full day in Medellin, Colombia, and to celebrate Kara’s birthday, 31 of us headed out to the picturesque Lake Guatapé:We weren’t headed out there just for the vistas, though. Our destination was La Manuela, one of Pablo Escobar’s 500+ properties, and our mission was to team…

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Losing at Translations

I’m three months into living in Spanish-speaking countries, and I really thought that by now I’d be speaking more Español than I have been. The challenge of living, traveling and working alongside 50+ native/fluent English speakers is that it’s really hard to break out of my language comfort zone. When circumstances do call for speaking Spanish, there’s almost always someone…

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How to Really Settle in to Your New Home in Bogota

Step 1.Freak out (in a good way) with your roommate, Lauren, as you open the door and find a modern kitchen (with luxuries like cheese knives!), a fancy washer AND a dryer, a gas fireplace that kicks on at the touch of a button (s’mores party, anyone?), an office nook (hello, work from home days!), and Netflix on the bedroom tv. Repeatedly high five over…

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Viva Spontaneity!

It was 11pm on a Wednesday night, and Betsy, Ben, Sami, Nik and I were at a bar, our third for the night. The five of us had been on separate road trips through the Rioja wine region and that Monday, Betsy, Ben and I had run into Sami and Nik at a winery called Marqués de Riscal (home of a gorgeous hotel designed by Frank…

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