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Day 216: Asking for Help in a Foreign Land, and Not Getting It

By on August 6, 2011 in Spain

On day 216, I worked on gathering up content for an article over on Bootsnall discussing some of the more awkward situations that come about during solo travel (article next week). During my collection, I realized that a lot of the ideas came from not being able to communicate… Read more with someone in a foreign language. We’ve all had those truly

August 6, 2011 · Read full story · Comments { 3 }

Fave Posts Part 1: Language & Communication

By on June 1, 2010 in Writing

You can’t travel around the world… Read more and not experience some level of difficulty with communicating. It’s a given almost anywhere you go; even if I were to travel to the deep south in America I would have troubles with the language. While looking through my site’s archives, I noticed that I had touched on the subject quite a few times,

June 1, 2010 · Read full story · Comments { 2 }

Rate Your Study Abroad: Interview

By on March 23, 2009 in Interviews

Recently, I was contacted by Rate Your Study Abroad… Read more for a quick interview. At first this sounded strange being interviewed for a website about study abroad options for students until I thought about the fact that I have actually participated in studies abroad three times during my travels in the past year and a half – archaeology, Spanish, and Russian

March 23, 2009 · Read full story · Comments { 0 }

What has been the best year of your life?

By on January 15, 2009 in Estonia, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Poland, Soviet Travel, Ukraine

In one of my conversation clubs in school here in Ukraine, I asked my students what the best year of their life has been. Questions like these, followed with a simple, “Why?”, are a great way to get them all to talk (my main goal for my classes), while also killing a ton of class time. However, a lot of… Read more

January 15, 2009 · Read full story · Comments { 5 }
Hello from Mexico

Hello from Mexico

By on January 29, 2008 in Mexico

When Brian and I arrived in Xela over a week ago and had to resort to buying what we call “winter apparel”, we both decided a trip to the beach was in order. Unfortunately, Guatemala is not known for its beaches, and since we were already so close to the Mexico border, we headed north all the way to Puerto… Read more

January 29, 2008 · Read full story · Comments { 1 }
Me and My Box

Me and My Box

By on January 23, 2008 in Guatemala

On the way to Xela, and while walking around Xela, I realized having our backpacks stuffed with all the wonderful things we bought in Chichicastenango was going to be a problem. After tightening my straps all the way on my pack, I was still having trouble getting it to fit correctly (I have definitely lost some weight here! Not to… Read more

January 23, 2008 · Read full story · Comments { 0 }

Hola, Quiere Pan?!

By on January 20, 2008 in Guatemala

In the last post, I made a reference to the “Quiere pan” lady in San Pedro. There are actually many, but one in particular is very persistent with her job of haggling any passerby to buy one of the pastries she carries in a basket on her head. It did not matter how many times you passed by and said… Read more

January 20, 2008 · Read full story · Comments { 3 }

Our abode.

By on January 11, 2008 in Guatemala, Language Learning

Just wanted to do a quick post on the place we are currently staying at in San Pedro. This is a video we did of the school´s dorm (I know our families would like to see where we are staying). We are taking Spanish with Casa Rosario… Read more, which is very cheap here in San Pedro. There are other cheaper

January 11, 2008 · Read full story · Comments { 1 }

Spanish 101: Pop Quiz

By on January 9, 2008 in Guatemala, Language Learning

It’s hard to concentrate in class when:
a) You’re surrounded by beautiful gardens bathing in the sun
b) You’re able to hear the waves from the lake washing ashore
c) Your Spanish language teacher spends more time picking his nose than he does quizzing your grammar.
If you guessed C, you have the correct answer!… Read more
We started our Spanish lessons

January 9, 2008 · Read full story · Comments { 13 }