Baby Shower in Medellín: Gift-Giving, Small Talk, and the Spanish Vocabulary That Makes It Flow
Three weeks ago I found myself balancing a tower of pañales tier cake in one hand and a suspiciously rattling gift bag in the other, inching through
Asking for Wifi Installation: Claro vs Tigo
El día que mi serie se congeló y empecé a vivir la aventura del router I was halfway through a Dominican crime drama, popcorn in hand, when the spi
Asking for Directions in Cartagena’s Walled City—Local Spanish Tips
Getting Happily Lost: My First Sunset Inside the Walls I still remember the lavender dusk that settled over Cartagena the first time I arrived from Sa
Applying for a Colombian Pension Visa: Paperwork, Interview Phrases, and the Cross-Caribbean Spanish Adventure
I was standing in the air-conditioned hallway of the Colombian consulate in Santo Domingo, clutching a folder so thick it deserved its own frequent-fl
Apartment-Hunting Vocabulary: From “Fianza” to “Piso Compartido”
Why Vocabulary Is Half the Lease Battle My first rental meeting in Madrid ended with a polite handshake—and a contract that hid an aval bancario (ba