“Educado” vs Educated

I am currently in the process of applying somewhere (where is not important in this context) and in order to get in I had to write an essay. The essay required me to answer a couple of questions in less than 500 words, one of…

02 June, 2017

I wrote a journal…

Its over! I am back from Brazil…  Throughout my time there I decided to write a journal, I have never kept a journal or a diary before but since this experience was so unique and GCY encouraged it a lot I decided to try and…

18 May, 2017

The Bubble

Throughout our bridge year, GCY requires us to give a "speak up" at any one of our seminars. A speak up consists of a fellow standing in front of their cohort and giving a mini speech on whatever topic they prefer. I was chosen to…

25 April, 2017

Risotto and Responsibilities

Yesterday after eating more than two bowls of the delicious “risoto de lula” that my host mom made, Kenya and I were laying down on my bed almost in a food coma, talking and talking about everything and nothing at the same time. Eventually we…

31 January, 2017

The Struggles of Being Bili….Trilingual(ish?)

  Ever since I moved from Mexico to the United States I began to struggle to juggle two languages. Now that I am in the process of learning a third, these struggles are adding up everyday. I could go ahead and write a full blog…

20 December, 2016

6th week / 34

I have been putting off writing this blog because I have had so many different experiences since I left home that its hard to put them into words. However, I have been taking plenty of pictures, to the point that I have to download them…

01 October, 2016

In search of a new home

I consider myself fortunate because I have had the opportunity to live in three very different places so far. And even more so because each place grew special enough to me that I can now call each one of them my home. Every time I…

12 August, 2016