How I Learned to Explain Cloud Storage at a Tech Shop in Bogotá (and Not Sound Like a Total Gringo)
From Coconut Palms to Cables: The Morning I Needed a New Hard Drive It started as one of those déjà-vu expat moments. I had just landed in Bogotá a
How I Learned to Charm Claro Colombia: Real-World Spanish Vocabulary for Internet Outages
Cuando la Wi-Fi decide tomar vacaciones Mi primera llamada desesperada a Claro Colombia The sun had only just slipped behind the palms in Cartagena wh
How I Flagged Down Help on DR Highway 1 – Roadside Spanish That Actually Works
From Popping a Tire to Popping New Words into My Head There’s a moment every long-term expat secretly dreads: the hiss of a tire giving up in the mi
How a Simple “Marchamo” Chat Turned Into a Masterclass on Real-World Spanish
From a Bogotano Parking Lot to My Laptop in Santo Domingo I thought I had outgrown rookie surprises after a decade abroad, yet last December proved me
How a Dominican Decade Prepared Me for Colombia’s Civil-Registry Circus
There I was, clutching a sweaty ticket that said turno 283 in a Medellín notaría, wondering whether the ceiling fans were actually pushing time back