Hola todos! I have been back in the United States for almost two weeks now, and I think I finally have enough distance from the experience to sit down and write this last post without running out of words halfway through. Coming home after eight weeks abroad is a strange thing. Everything looks the same…

Hola todos! Eight weeks ago, I packed a single suitcase, boarded a red-eye flight with my stomach full of nerves and my head full of expectations, and landed in a city I had only been in for 48 hours as a bright-eyed high school senior. Now, sitting down to write my final blog post of…

Hola todos! Seven weeks in, and as I sit down to write what is one of my final blog posts of this program, I find myself reflecting on something that has quietly been one of the most important threads running through this entire experience. Communication. Not just the language barrier, which is its own ongoing…

Hola todos! Six weeks in, and this program continues to find new ways to push me in directions I did not see coming. This week’s prompt asks me to reflect on leadership, which is a word I have always felt a little complicated about. Not because I shy away from it, but because I think…

Hola todos! Five weeks into this internship, and I have officially hit the point where I stopped counting the days and started actually noticing how much I have changed since I got here. This week’s prompt asks me to reflect on the skills I am building, both the soft kind and the hard kind, and…

Hola todos! Four weeks in, and I think it is finally time to have an honest conversation about culture shock. Not the dramatic kind you see in movies, where someone lands in a foreign country and immediately melts down over not being able to find a cheeseburger. The quieter kind, where little things accumulate over…

Hola todos! Three weeks in, and if there is one thing this internship has taught me above everything else, it is that the professional world operates on a very different kind of confidence than the one you build in school. In a classroom, the problems are designed to be solved. The professor knows the answer,…

Hola todos! After wrapping up my first full week at Bond EMEA, I can honestly say that the professional world has a way of both humbling you and exciting you at the same time, sometimes in the same meeting. With this being my first true professional office experience, I walked in on Monday morning not…

Hola todos! I just wrapped up my first day of work in Madrid, and this city has been nothing but exhilarating so far. After a red-eye flight where I slept for about 8 of the 9 hours, I made it to Madrid early last Monday, where I met my host mom, Valentina, in her cozy…