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8 life-changing strengths you will learn while living abroad

Before I moved to Spain, I naively thought that it wouldn't be as hard as they say. I wasn't fully aware of the experience that awaited me and how much living abroad can change you in a blink of an...

Rented flats in Granada and their outdated interior styles

There are rules in architecture for building houses or anything that will be used by a human being. The layers are part of the wall construction and they should not be missing bridging elements or insulation. Those are basic rules...

The real seasons of Granáland

I live in Granada, I call it Granáland, and if there was a certificate for the excellent summer survival skills, I would probably have it hung on the wall along with other rare acquired skills in Southern Spain. After three,...

It’s been a long time, a call to a lost friend

Hi, It’s been a long time. I disappeared. I haven’t talked with many people about it. Actually, to no one. I was lost. A disaster. Craved something greater from life and myself. What does that even mean? A purpose? A...

How did I imagine my 30’s, as a teenager

There is a time in everyone's life when we think that thirty years old is still far away and surely before this magic number will hit us in the face, many miracles will happen along the way. Similar to the...

What happens when you keep a diary from the age of 17?

I recently read all my diaries, travel journals and poems that I have collected over the years, and this is only because I rewrote everything to digital form correcting grammar mistakes, and I was speechless. Especially while reading my personal...

30 life quotes from my journals

When I was younger, I had a notebook of quotes that got my attention. Most of the 90s girls had, trust me. I collected short phrases from 2000s magazines, books or series (such as One Tree Hill, Beverly Hills 90210,...

Post – Erasmus trip to Granada, 5 years later

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.” - Pascal Mercier With such...

I healed my broken heart, but not my thoughts. (2017)

“The woman who does not require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet.” - Mohadesa Najumi   A few weeks ago, I ended my healing journey. I thought it is a good reason to write this...