Most days I have in Amsterdam are uneventful. On those days, I go through the same routine that I would if I were living anywhere. But, some days, Amsterdam knocks me on my a**. I had one of those days last week. I think the best way I can share it is to take you [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Only in Amsterdam (A Day in the Life)
Posted in Amsterdam, Chela's Blog, Foreign Service Life on December 28, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Yo hablo español
Posted in Amsterdam, Chela's Blog, Family, Foreign Service Life, Kahlilah on December 2, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Trying to raise a child bilingually is hard. Really HARD. I could talk about how I didn’t study another language until high school, how I didn’t really learn another language (Spanish) until my mid-20s when I did an immersion program in Mexico and did my thesis research in Ecuador, how even then my vocabulary was [...]