Residents of New York City enjoy an embarrassment of culinary riches in all sorts of niche categories, which means that the winter hot chocolate selection is incredibly diverse. I’ve identified three of my personal favorite hot chocolates, two in Brooklyn and one in Manhattan, though I could name many others. Also worth mentioning is the [...]

Everyone needs a good book to read. Every year Amazon issues a Best Books of The Year list. They offer top 100 lists based on editor and customer reviews.

This year I am in Argentina for our impending, incredibly important, presidential election. Thankfully, our Board of Elections came through on my absentee ballot. I successfully received my request for an absentee ballot and the absentee ballot itself, sent by snail mail through the notoriously suspicious Argentine postal service to this small Argentine town. I [...]

When I first arrived in Argentina, some younger students asked me if we have siesta in the U.S. When I said no, I could see pity on their faces, and they asked “Why not?” The answer I usually give is that it’s just not part of our “American lifestyle.”
I suppose the reason is partly cultural [...]

Chapter 5: TEFL Graduation
I was once, long ago in Santo Domingo, told by a more experienced expat; that TEFL for survival is a path many have taken in their early years in country. For a while now, after four years as a TEFL, I have been considering my options. Translation work with my wife is [...]

Colón is the sort of place where you could just lay around on the sand fanning yourself with palm leaves, though not glamorous enough to simultaneously eat grapes off the vine one by one. It’s one of the loveliest small towns in the Argentine province of Entre Ríos, mostly popular for its riverside beaches and [...]

The following commentary is pieced together from a summary and notes taken during a Q&A session with a Spanish expat living in the US as a university language professor.
The last class was a good opportunity to ask questions about life in Spain and the transition to American life. This winter I may be flying [...]

Coming from a University where study abroad is a common thread between students, it’s not  uncommon to hear students ask each other “Where do you plan on studying abroad?” Actually, since joining a sorority on campus I have been taught to ask this when evaluating a potential new member.
But what strikes me most about this [...]

The Esteros del Iberá are a seemingly endless expanse of marshes, lagoons, floating islands, lush vegetation, and diverse wildlife, comprising roughly 14% of Corrientes province. The appeal of this gorgeous nature reserve largely comes from being unspoiled by rampant tourism. If you’ve ever envisioned rowing your own canoe into a lagoon teeming with hungry caimans, [...]

Does the U.S. really want free education at the university level? Many Americans would have a knee-jerk reaction and say “yes, I’m swimming in debt from my child’s pre-school bills already, not to mention the $100 list of mandatory school supplies.” Free university education would relieve the American public of a rapidly increasing financial burden, [...]