Choose Your Own…Language?

As a teenager, I loved immersing myself in Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) stories. To the uninitiated, these are stories where you – the reader – can choose the destiny of the protagonist. Each choice made takes the story in a different direction. A simple example:

What news squire?

FOR THE FIRST TIME in over a year, I’m sick. Battling a head cold. Really annoying. Since taking daily cold showers, I felt almost invincible. I guess the Christmas indulgence of booze and my achilles heel – Ferrero Rocher’s – helped accelerate my downfall. Just gonna have to take a little better care of myself from 2018. […]

Spanglish – An Eejit Abroad

IT’S VERY EASY to stay within your comfort zone in foreign countries. Especially when you can speak enough of the language to get around. I’m half way through my Colombia adventure, a third trip in two years. My first time on these shores was a backpacking trip through Central and South America. I fell in love with […]

Learning Spanish in Guatemala

My motivation for learning Spanish was pretty straightforward: I was about to embark on a 9 month backpacking whistle-stop tour of Central and South America, and felt that my experience would be heightened if I could speak some of the lingo. I wanted to come back from my travels with a newly learnt, practical skill […]