Maybe I am borderline ADD, but for me there is nothing worse than waiting around for something. Waiting for a ride somewhere; waiting for a friend to show up for a coffee date, waiting for the next Game of Thrones season (10 days woot woot!) or waiting on a trip or big move abroad sometime [...]
Tag Archives | auxiliares de conversación
A Guide to the Regions in Spain for Auxiliares de Conversación
It’s that time of year again. The applications are about to open for the auxiliar de conversación teaching English in Spain program that I’ve done for the past two years. Let the mayhem commence! With many many posts on here about being an auxiliar, from tips and tricks, to expat stories, to travel and tapas [...]
The Importance of Being a Traveler: 5 Lessons I’ve Learned
As the year is winding down, I have begun to reflect about what I have personally accomplished (and didn’t accomplish) in 2012. Don’t we all? Wahoo, I successfully lived for 2 years overseas and traveled to several new countries, but damn, I didn’t jump out of plane or learn Swahili. Oh well, there is always [...]
The Kinds Of People You’ll Meet in the Auxiliar Program in Spain
This week’s guest post comes from a fellow northern Spain blogger, coincidentally blonde and also named Liz, from Liz en España and A Midwestern Life about the kinds of people you meet when you do the auxiliar de conversación teaching program in Spain. After being in the Auxiliar program for 2 years, you start to notice a lot [...]
How to Swear Like a Spaniard
DAMN, this wind SUCKS! One of my favorite things about living in Spain was speaking Spanish. Blinding flash of the obvious, speaking Spanish in Spain, but I loved every minute of it. I loved ordering breakfast at the cafe around the corning of my apartment. I loved chatting with the bus driver. I loved talking to [...]
Top 5 Reasons Why I HATE the Auxiliar Program in Spain
Why is it that my top 3 most popular posts on this blog are the ones that are the most controversial? Are you guys trying to tell me that you like my biting sarcasm and wit and when I get sassy and borderline inappropriate? Or maybe is it because you like reading something painfully honest, wait…..EVERYBODY [...]
12 Things I Miss about Spain
In the beginning of last summer, riled up by all my problems with Spanish bureaucracy, I wrote a post entitled 12 things I miss about America. Little did I know I hit on such a hot and controversial issue! Fights were breaking out in the comment section and on twitter about touchy topics like to-go coffee [...]
That time I almost got deported (twice)
Did I mention I am the unluckiest person in Spain, and quite possibly the whole world? Either that or the luckiest. My friends back home in Virginia used to have a running list of “things that would only ever happen to Liz.” And damn, my last six months dealing with the legal system and border [...]
Key tips for auxiliares, part 5: How to defer student loans in Spain
Hey guys, I know it’s been a while since I brought you some new key tips for living in Spain as an auxiliar de conversación. By now you’ve probably been working for exactly a month, getting settled in for your new year in Spain, making new friends, trying new foods, learning some important (read: naughty) [...]
The Long Farewell: Hasta Luego, Spain!
As some of you might already know from my various hints on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, or maybe we’ve talked through normal means of communication, I’ve left Spain. Indefinitely. For a while. Maybe. Jesus, that was hard to write. I’ve been back home in DC for almost a month now, and it’s taken me nearly [...]
Who is Young Adventuress?
I'm Liz, and I got my first taste for traveling and Spain when I was 16 years old. On my own, 8 years and 25 countries later, my wanderlust has only grown and the list of countries I want to visit longer. Nowadays I call Logroño, Spain my home, where I split my time between teaching English, writing and traveling. Follow my adventures as I wander, eat, and photograph my way around the world.
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Today I Quit My Job to Travel the World
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Top 5 Reasons Why I HATE the Auxiliar Program in Spain
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How Blogging Saved Me
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No More Excuses! Go Abroad Now!
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Haters Gonna Hate: 10 Best Hate Comments I’ve Ever Gotten
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