The clock was ticking down. I’d just returned from Tallahassee with my apostille certificate. I had no appointment with the Spanish Embassy and the closest date I could get was the 29th of September. I was home doing the only thing a college student would do on a day off from work…
Breathe in... Breathe out... Breathe in... Breathe out... With shaky hands I signed the form that committed me to uprooting my entire life, everything I have ever known and starting again in a foreign country. Spain, to be exact.
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About the AuthorJ. Promise Gainey is a university student in the United States double-majoring in public relations and Spanish. She has been studying the Spanish language and Hispanic culture for eight years. Cartagena, Colombia; Barranquilla, Colombia; Santa Marta, Colombia and Cozumel, Mexico are a few of the places she has visited. Thanks to the University of North Florida's Coggin College of Business, she will live and take classes at La Universidad de Alicante, Spain for a year. Here she has documented her adventures. Would you like to make a donation? Click Below!
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