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Yearly Archives: 2008

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

  • Post author:Cat Gaa
  • Post published:December 20, 2008
  • Post category:holidays
  • Post comments:1 Comment

Lucia's car thermometer read 2º celcius by the time we arrived to Olivares. I said out loud to no one, "Shit, if it's this cold, I want to see snow!"…

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The Pueblo

  • Post author:Cat Gaa
  • Post published:December 8, 2008
  • Post category:Andalucia/Rural Tourism/San Nicolás del Puerto
  • Post comments:1 Comment

Kike is a country boy. All of this became a bit more clear to me last year when I visited the town his father's family is from, San Nicholas del…

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Read more about the article Turkeys, Visitors and the Return to my Spanish Life

Turkeys, Visitors and the Return to my Spanish Life

  • Post author:Cat Gaa
  • Post published:December 1, 2008
  • Post category:Personal Reflections on Teaching Abroad
  • Post comments:1 Comment

I haven't been spectacularly busy, but life is continuing as normal here. I really haven't got news. No traveling, no more hit-and-runs (unless you count me falling off my bike…

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The one in which I get hit by a car in Los Remedios

  • Post author:Cat Gaa
  • Post published:November 14, 2008
  • Post category:living abroad/Personal Reflections on Teaching Abroad
  • Post comments:4 Comments

Nothing monumental happened this week. As I said in an interview last week at Discover Sevilla (if you want, you can read my Substack post on this company), which I…

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Read more about the article Watching and Tracking the 2008 Elections from Spain

Watching and Tracking the 2008 Elections from Spain

  • Post author:Cat Gaa
  • Post published:November 7, 2008
  • Post category:America/democracy
  • Post comments:2 Comments

My friend Cat and I at the Democrats Abroad Election Viewing Party Before my first trip to Spain as a study abroad student in 2005, I was warned that the…

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Read more about the article Visiting Tuscany – Pisa and Florence

Visiting Tuscany – Pisa and Florence

  • Post author:Cat Gaa
  • Post published:October 26, 2008
  • Post category:international travel/Italy/Personal Reflections on Teaching Abroad/Travel
  • Post comments:1 Comment

"Alright then, have fun with your art hangover," Lindsay said before hanging up the phone. I took a deep breath, shutting off my phone and rereading my notes about Tuscany.…

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