Recipe: Tostada

Tostada is toast. But it is so much more than toast. It’s a really good baguette toasted and served something delicious upon it. Every adult in Spain eats one at 11:30 and half the restaurants have punch cards buy-5-tostadas-get-one-free kind of deals. 1 is super cheap, you can get tostada and a coffee for 2.60 […]

5 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Became a Teacher Abroad

I sat down and thought of things I wish I would’ve known before becoming a teacher abroad. Here’s the first five, there will be more because, you know, hindsight is 20-20. 1) It goes really fast I’m not sure why this is. I think it’s a combo of moving to a new place and the […]

Staycation Weekend Part 1

We recently had a long weekend off of school. Carnival (you know, that whole Mardi Gras thing) collided with the Day of the Balearic Islands (celebrating our islands becoming a recognized autonomous community). So we got lucky with Thursday and Friday off. Schools get 2 fun days (like snow days) they can apply to any […]

Recipe: Empanadas Mallorquinas

We decided to make our second ever Mallorcan recipe! Our first was about Sospiros, which you can check out over here. If you want to skip straight to the recipe, go straight to the bottom, but some of this requires some explanation. We also wrote a bit about the history of empanadas in Mallorca, which […]

Sant Antoni Festival 2 and Video

This is a continuation of our experience with Sant Antoni which started here. 7:30 is when the big song in the church started. Only 1,500 people can go in the church, but over 5,000 of us stood outside of the church to be part of it. It was a crush of people. I don’t think […]

Our Sant Antoni Festival

We just blogged about the who’s, what’s and why’s of Sant Antoni. But we wanted to talk about our personal experiences with the big Sant Antoni festival. As we said it was a whirlwind two weeks of absolutely fun nonsense. We tried to go to as many bonfires, communal barbecues, demon dances, and animal blessings […]

Welcome to Budapest

Being in Vienna is like staying over at your grandparents house – everything is calm, and orderly. The TV is always playing the history channel or the news, the music is all classical, and everything is very predictable. But then you go to Budapest, and it’s like going to your big sisters house. The channel […]

Go-To Teaching Activities: Our Top 5 Favorite Teaching Things

Here are our 5 favorite activities/projects/crafts we swear by. #1 is the best but we’re not going to make you scroll to the bottom to see it. Grid Questions Mini Books Flip Books Picture Searches Drawing Tutorials 1. Grid Questions These are our all time favorite things to do. You only need to print a […]

Thanksgiving

I consider hand turkeys to be the one thing I can 100% say is American. People always say oh hamburgers or pizza but those are German and Italian. The saying goes “more American than apple pie” but apple pie actually comes from England. Baseball? Sure we did invent that one but it’s only America’s third […]

Move to Spain 2: Important Preparations

This information is mostly pertinent to anyone in the Auxiliaries de Conversación program or anyone moving to teach/study in Spain. Don’t forget Part 1 – Arranging Your Move (to arrange flights, trains and hotels). What are your next steps? Feel free to use this table of contents to skip directly to where you want to […]