My Many Identities: Speaking More Than One Language

I know we all have different versions of ourselves. We have the version of lounging at home on the couch, we have our social selves and we have our work persona. But when it comes to speaking more than one language, I feel like I also have different identities. I speak three languages, English, Spanish …

If We Were Having Coffee (Or Hot Chocolate?)

It's Thursday, yay! If we were having coffee, I would probably have ordered (or made, depending on where we decided to chat) a hot chocolate instead. Lately, I am coffeed out (yes, I know coffeed is not a word but that is what my mother says when she can't stand coffee for a while and needs …

Merci Paris

Life, you are funny. Really funny. A year ago, I graduated from high school.  I graduated with a set of friends whom I now barely have any contact with. I remember that summer having that feeling of, "this is the last time... the last time we will be sitting here, all of us together, around …

Saturday Shenanigans: Friends, Wine and Festivals

I woke up on Saturday listening to the rain. At first, I smiled a little bit because I love the kind of rain that falls slowly, not the kind in Indiana where you feel that at some point the windows are going to break due to the harshness... but then there was a pit in …

The 12 Realities About Being an Au Pair

So you want to travel. You want to see the world. You want to be wanderlust. You have saved up enough money to buy a plane ticket and a few months abroad... but you know what would be better? Getting paid as you lived abroad. So after much googling, you've decided the path for you is au pairing. …