It’s rare that I choose to enter a blogger contest, mainly because I’m perfectly happy sticking to my bohemian musings yet here I am, racking my brain for a reason not to give it a “Go with Oh” shot. When I first took a look at the ten cities offered during the winner’s one month stay in Europe, my lips curled [...]
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Tips and Tricks for Language Learning
Those who have been following my three weeks in Bogota are well aware that one of my main motivators for choosing Colombia was to practice my Spanish. For the last several months I’ve been taking Spanish lessons in Manhattan, struggling to break free of my shy attitude about real-live practice. However, due to a few glitches in my plan, most [...]
Language Tips for the Bohemian Traveler
This is a follow-up post to How to Learn a Very Foreign Language by Jessica Tiare Bowen, one of our contributors. A few months ago, I made an early New Year’s Resolution: This is the year I will become bilingual. But much like any resolution, seeing it written on paper is so much easier than having that dream come to fruition. [...]
How to Beat a Bad Exchange Rate
(original article is from Megan’s Travel Column on Life2PointOh, entitled Weekly Wanders) Let’s be honest. The American dollar hasn’t exactly been doing that great the last few years. Back in 2008 when I was studying in London, I almost cried one morning after calculating how much my tall vanilla latte was actually costing me in American dollars. Just a few [...]
How Not to Offend Foreign Locals
After watching the last two episodes of The Real Housewives of New York City, I feel the need to vent about some of the women’s horrific behavior while on their trip to Morocco. I realize that this is a reality show and that ratings are of supreme importance to Bravo, but having traveled through three continents and seeing first hand [...]
