Last fall, I started sharing what I was learning as a student. Then... I went quiet for seven months. Why I Stopped Blogging I wanted to let you know why I disappeared for a while. No, I didn't give up on this project. Quite the opposite. The deeper I stepped into the student seat, the more I found myself learning—not just about Spanish, but about teaching, learning, and what it truly feels like to struggle through the learning process again. Those experiences became too impo

I didn’t take a “gap year.” I had my first child on my 23rd birthday, and then life moved fast. Three kids, back-to-back, and all the responsibilities that came with that. I always longed for adventure though. I first started tutoring international students in English when I was 20. It amazed me that they would travel to a new country to learn English and take on that kind of challenge. I think part of me always wished I could do the same. Years later, we took a job in Mexico