Posted by Chris Showers on May 22nd, 2009.
Anybody have a cheap apartment in Burgos that they want to rent to me? My lease is up in the place that I’m currently living at and it’s time for me to start looking for a new place to live.
You know, the whole “apartment search” thing for me is a little stressful. After all, I can only be in the place that I’m currently at until the end of June and, because of the looming deadline, I can’t help but wonder what might happen if I don’t find a new apartment to move into by the time my current lease expires. Will I become a member of the Burgos homeless population? Will I have to rename this blog to “Abroad in the streets of Spain?” I hope not. Continue reading this post…
Posted by Chris Showers on May 17th, 2009.
AHHHHHHHHH! All of a sudden, I have had EVERYTHING happen to me at once and I am now just a little STRESSED OUT. My nice, simple life in Spain has turned into a chaotic, stressful one… but the stress will not be permanent (I hope).
You see, I’ve been procrastinating a bit over the last few months and, now that June is approaching, I’m suddenly realizing that I have a lot of things to get done. In fact, before the end of June I have the following goals: renew my residency card, look for a new apartment, get a new insurance policy, and look into a course that I want to do at the university. All this is quite a bit on top of my regular schedule at the school and giving private classes.
I have a June 30th deadline for all these things because in July I’m going home to the USA for a visit. Of course, I want to leave these things done so that they don’t “linger on” until after I return to Spain in August. Continue reading this post…
Posted by Chris Showers on April 20th, 2009.
Hello all! I just wanted to write a quick post to let you know that tomorrow morning I am going on a school trip to Barcelona with my students and, thus, won’t be updating the blog for a few days. I will be returning around the beginning of next week so stay tuned for updates (and Barcelona pictures) at that time! Continue reading this post…
Posted by Chris Showers on April 12th, 2009.
I have been SUPER busy during the last two or three days. Why? It’s easy: today I have a couple American friends coming to stay the night and I’ve used the last day or so to get my apartment clean, make sure I have food in the refrigerator (since I’m a single guy, sometimes my fridge is a little bare), and generally “prepare” for their visit. In fact, I’ve done so much preparing that you would think Zapatero himself was going to show up at my door.
I usually try pretty hard to integrate myself into the “Spanish” lifestyle and really make an effort to not be one of those expats who lives in Spain but only associates with other people from his home country. In fact, I’d say that here in Spain about 99.9% of my contact is with Spaniards and I almost never talk to anyone from the USA. Soooo, this visit from the Americans will be sort of a “nice change.” Continue reading this post…
Posted by Chris Showers on November 17th, 2007.
I made this image the other day to illustrate what is happening to me (or maybe it’s what I hope will be happening to me over the course of the year)… a blending of Spain and the USA, sort of. Continue reading this post…
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