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Auxiliares de Conversación / Travel Talk
by Kirstie Jeffries · Published November 1, 2015 · Last modified August 14, 2017
Today’s Travel Talk star is Kim-Ling of Travel-Ling, a native of Brisbane, Australia who spent last year teaching as an auxiliar de conversación in the small village of Pozoblanco in the Córdoba, Andalucía region. She has...
by Kirstie Jeffries · Published October 29, 2015 · Last modified March 28, 2018
They say that Halloween is the time of year in which the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest. A city with as much history as Sydney is undoubtedly home...
by Kirstie Jeffries · Published October 26, 2015 · Last modified March 28, 2018
One of my very favorite holidays is just around the corner once again. Halloween hits town this Saturday, and my preparations are well under way. While Australia isn’t nearly as festive as the U.S. when...
by Kirstie Jeffries · Published October 25, 2015 · Last modified March 28, 2018
With a climate as distinct from Sydney’s, no trip to Tropical North Queensland would be complete without a visit to the rainforest. The Daintree claims the title of Australia’s largest rainforest, located two and...
by Kirstie Jeffries · Published October 19, 2015 · Last modified May 28, 2018
It wasn’t until the plane was descending into Cairns that I realized how excited I really was to be traveling there. Endless lush rainforests, tropical birds at every turn, cyan water with world of biodiversity beneath. This...
National Novel Writing Month, better known as NaNoWriMo, is an annual challenge to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. It’s a massive feat, but, believe me, it can be done!...
by Kirstie Jeffries · Published October 1, 2015 · Last modified March 8, 2021
I don’t know how it happened, but, somehow, four years have passed since I embarked on my two years of teaching English in Spain as an auxiliar de conversación. Though not every moment was perfect, they were genuinely...
Studying a map of Spain in eighth grade, my first year of Spanish class, I became determined to one day travel to Aragón, not because I knew anything about its history or sights, but...
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