Welcome to my brain. Read on.
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Whose Got the Funk? I Got the Funk
How I Shook the Funk The other day, I was in a complete and utter funk. This happens to all of us sometime or another. Lately, while adjusting to a new culture, new (HUGE) city, new routine, it seems to creep on me more frequently than usual. I started the day with meditation. This is…
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Creative Living: 8 Ways to Stay Disciplined
If you follow this blog or take the time to look through it, you might notice there hasn’t been a whole lot of consistency. I know, I know. I beat myself up about it ALL THE TIME. I tell myself things like: “If you really loved it, you’d just do it. It would be a…
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Monthly Food Budget in Colombia
Something ultra important to me when I settle into a new place is food. Duh, right? While good restaurants in close proximity are a perk, having grocery stores and markets that are close by and affordable is KEY in order to create a solid monthly food budget. Within a one block radius, there are three…
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The Reality Behind Travel
Behind all the “grammable” moments, the gorgeous album of photos uploaded to Facebook, the amazing snaps and instastories blasted out for the world to see, the reality of traveling is a sobering one. First, let me start by stating that I recognize how lucky I am to have earned opportunities to travel and to live…
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An Ill Nation: We’re Sick, We’re Sad and I’m Heartbroken and Mad
For years now, I’ve made the habit of listening to the news in the morning. While I lived in Spain, the NPR app was a way for me to stay in the loop with my country and its happenings. To feel more connected with my people soothed my homesickness. It provided comfort, even though what…
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5 of My Favorite Spanish Foods
When I first arrived to Spain, I wasn’t sure what to eat or how to eat or how to shop for myself. It was if entering into a new society suddenly wiped my mind clear of all the things I had learned after living by myself for five years. I’m already indecisive enough as it…
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Amor Pacense
Una oda a una tierra bella
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5 Things I’ve Learned at my Office Job
1. Being on Time Matters In this culture timeliness corresponds to responsibility and reliability. People notice and it does have an impact… even when you think it shouldn’t, it does. Ugh. This has been the hardest thing for me to reconcile. If you know me (I’ve WAY gotten better!) I’m notoriously late… so trying to remedy…
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3 Coping Tools for Moving Back Home (& other big life changes)
When I landed on U.S. soil again in June of 2016, I began to weep subconsciously. I had no real thought in my head and didn’t quite understand intellectually why I became overcome with sobs as I stared out at the Logan Airport Tarmac. I didn’t question it though– I didn’t ask, why am I…
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5 Ways to Make Cubicle Life More Bearable
From Classroom to Cubicle I swore to my mother I’d never ever work in a cubicle. I’d never become an “office bitch”. Well, you know what they say… never say never. Alas, here I am… in rural Wisconsin working for a corporation inside a 5 X 10 cubicle staring at a computer screen for the better…
Hi, I'm Alaina 