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By adebejar on Apr 20, 2012 in Spain | Comments Off
So, another year goes by and it’s time to pack up and set off to a new stage, a little uncertain as yet, but not for that reason any worse. I’ve always sucked at letting go of things. So, after some thinking about what to make of my last entry here, I’ve decided that I [...]
By adebejar on Mar 22, 2012 in Spain, Uncategorized | Comments Off
Fashion, I consider, is a very personal thing. Trendsetters and big name designers create the fashions we are supposed to live by but, sometimes, living up to the dictates of fashion can be a hard—sometimes even dangerous—thing. We cannot forget that the world is large enough that variety and diversity in fashion is something almost [...]
By adebejar on Feb 28, 2012 in Spain | Comments Off
Sometimes, I wake up in the morning with the memory of a flavor, something like a scent, tapping against the walls of my stomach as if wanting me to remember something else altogether by listening closely to the rhythms in that innermost tapping. At times, it is just the scent of coffee wafting from the kitchen [...]
By adebejar on Feb 2, 2012 in Spain, Uncategorized | Comments Off
Christmas has never been something really big in my family.
By adebejar on Dec 14, 2011 in Spain | Comments Off
Are you one of those who, in reading our posts, often find their expectations shattered by the way in which strange bits of info never make it into our blog entries? Are you one of those who often give up and get bored with long pieces of reading that reveal too much information about just [...]
By adebejar on Oct 14, 2011 in Spain | Comments Off
Icons aren’t always necessarily figures to revere and imitate. Indeed, it sometimes is the opposite.
In 1998, Spanish actor and film director Santiago Segura released onto Spanish screens a film that he didn’t yet know would become one of the best-selling sagas of contemporary Spanish cinema: Torrente. This masterpiece of absurd comedy —which featured a good-for-nothing [...]
By adebejar on Sep 26, 2011 in Spain | Comments Off
My name is Alba de Béjar and I’m one of the the two Language Assistants of Spanish at Willamette this year. I’m at Willamette thanks to the Fulbright FLTA program that, every year, sponsors teaching assistants from different countries all over the world to come and share their culture and experiences with students in the [...]