Fun fact: Spain has many varieties of chocolate (and assorted gummy candy) and I happen to be a low-key enthusiast of chocolate and sugar. Within the first week of living in Spain, I made it my personal goal to try every kind of chocolate on the shelf of the local supe...

And then there was Energy Therapy. 

Since that was both my housemates’ jobs, I couldn’t very well have avoided it all semester so towards the beginning, I went ahead and got it over with since, well, what is study abroad for but grand therapeutical adventures? I wasn’...

Around this time of year, a lot of us experience the dreaded sinus headache. If you've never hadone, it comes as a thief in the night. The first signs: dizziness and fatigue. Hoping the symptoms will be gone by morning, you snort some salt water to clear your head, may...

This was one of the stranger experiences I had in Spain, mostly because I’d never experienced anything like it before, but it also happened on my first full day in Bilbao when culture shock had already taken over my brain. This is how it was from my perspective:

Befor...

The scene smelled of incense. The air was light, as the entire right side of the apartment was made of floor to ceiling windows. I had just arrived to my Spanish home. There was a quiet humming of music that echoed from all corners of the house and I noticed both a Mar...