THE ONE WITH TWO YOUNGER SISTERS

This past summer, I au paired from June to August in Madrid, Spain. I lived with a host family, which included my host mom and dad and their two daughters, Eva and Ana. Eva is 9 years old, while Ana is 7 years old, but they both enjoy doing arts and crafts (or as the parents first said to me, “handy crafts”), watching TV, playing with their friends, swimming, singing and bugging the crap out of each other.

THE ONE WHERE I FINISHED A UNC ART CLASS IN SPAIN

Last summer, I took a five-week UNC online art class. Not only did I give my all to each project, but most projects had multiple parts. Then, I had to take each one a step further: take multiple shots of each project and edit every photo. The photos were how I had to submit my work.

The last week and a half of the class overlapped with my first week and a half that I was au pairing in Madrid. So, for that week and a half, after my long weekdays of au pairing from 9am-4pm, I was working on art projects in my room.

THE ONE WITH OREO COOKIES FOR BREAKFAST

It’s not uncommon in Spain for people to have cookies and milk for breakfast, but I understood cookies to be a breakfast cookie, such as Belvita, because I had had something similar to those for breakfast in Sevilla.

One of my responsibilities was to help the girls get breakfast, but a lot of mornings they were up before the sun was and would start helping themselves when they saw me come out of my room.

THE ONE WHERE I THOUGHT I SAW HANNAH MONTANA

“You get the limo out front (Ooh-ah-woo)
Hottest styles
every shoe, every color
Yea, when you’re famous it can be kind of fun

It’s really you, but no one ever discovers
Who would a thought that a girl like me
would double as a superstar!
You get the best of both worlds

Chillin’ out, take it slow
Then you rock out the show
You get the best of both worlds
Mix it all together and you know you that it’s the best of
both worlds,
ha ha ha”