Abroad in Spain: Travel Blog

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…

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…

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything about the scholarship that I have received from the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC) so I thought I’d write a quick post to let you know my status. As my loyal readers know, I have been awarded the scholarship and I will be going to the “Castilla y León” region of Spain this coming September to teach English for one year. As I see it, I now have three big goals that I need to accomplish this summer to prepare for my departure.  Continue reading this post…

It’s been a few days since I was notified that I won a scholarship to go to Spain, and now that I’ve had time to let it “sink in,” I thought I’d write a short post to let everyone know my deepest, innermost thoughts (well, not really that deep).  As you can see from the “thumbs-up” picture of me above, the first thing that comes to mind when I think about the scholarship is GOOOOOOOD GOING!!!! Continue reading this post…