The first day of class after vacation is always rough, particularly when your mind is still with all the Polish dumplings and medieval castles you experienced on one of the best trips ever. So I didn’t prepare much in terms of teaching on Monday, ...Read More

Now that placements for the 2014—2015 school year are rolling out, I thought I’d write up a list of expenses so the fresh and doe-eyed auxiliars in Basque Country can know what to expect. Bilbao is ranked as one of the most expensive cities ...Read More

After six months as an Auxiliar, and coincidentally six months dealing with a very weird thumb infection (I’ll spare the details), I finally plucked up the courage to give socialist medicine a try. I put it off for so long because a) everything in ...Read More

Heidi Graves is 22, living in San Francisco, working at a tech startup called Causes.com, and wishing she was traveling the world. She graduated from UCSB with a degree in History and a minor in Education and Applied Psychology. From 2011-2012 she was studying ...Read More

In general, things are smaller in Europe. Houses, cars, food portions, elevators, refrigerators, streets, and waistlines, to name a few. There’s one exception: Baby strollers. Life for Basque babies has never been better. It is currently the parenting trend to transport your infant in ...Read More

Today’s expat interview features none other than my older sister, Katie! Katie Marshall is 25 years old, currently living in Brooklyn, NY, and working as an artist and Russian translator. She graduated Reed College in 2012, where she majored in Russian literature. On Her ...Read More

Since I can’t seem to get enough of Basque fishing villages, my friends and I did a two-for-one the other weekend, visiting the towns of Bermeo and Mundaka. We took the bus to Bermeo, a larger town on the Bay of Biscay, and the ...Read More