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    Things We Did That Helped With The First Year of Spanish School & What My Kids Think About Life Here

    From the NLV in Spain (Non-Lucrative Visa) to Citizenship via the IberoAmerican Pathway

    Daily Life in Zaragoza, Spain

    Ashley BurgosDecember 31, 202402.5K views

    December 31, 2024 So it’s New Years Eve 2024, and I am sitting here in bed, staring at this blank white screen, wondering if this is a good idea or not. Which…

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    Things We Did That Helped With The First Year of Spanish School & What My Kids Think About Life Here

    Ashley BurgosNovember 22, 202402.3K views

    I have written before about our cumulative experience with education in Spain, up to this point. We’ve utilized everything form Montessori and Democratic Schools, to private British Schools, and then finally to…

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    From the NLV in Spain (Non-Lucrative Visa) to Citizenship via the IberoAmerican Pathway

    Ashley BurgosNovember 10, 202412.5K views

    Husband: Mexican passport, Mexican acta, Mexican ID card; paid MX visa fee Wife: USA passport, USA birth certificate, MX residency card; paid USA visa fee Child 1: USA passport, USA birth certificate,…

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    How We Prepared Financially in Advance to be Able to Leave the United States (& the Passports We Have Since Obtained)

    Ashley BurgosNovember 9, 202402.4K views

    Work, education, language, culture- there are so many changes to anticipate when you decide that you might want to leave your home country and move abroad, but how can you prepare for…

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    Why & How We Left the United States & Our Current Plans (From a Mixed Status Family)

    Ashley BurgosNovember 8, 202433.7K views

    Okay guys, or VALE as the Spaniards say, I am about to go down a very personal road here, so buckle up! Here is the briefest way to say this: I used…

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    Morocco: Tangier & Casablanca: April/May 2023

    Ashley BurgosOctober 20, 202402.3K views

    Flights taken: Madrid to Tangier Advanced Planning: A few weeks Train trips: Tangier to Casablanca Roundtrip Our trip to Morocco was probably one of our most unique and different trips thus far.…

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    Why we Chose to Move to Spain & Our Journey to Zaragoza

    Ashley BurgosOctober 16, 202433.1K views

    We left the United States and moved abroad to Mexico in 2018 (my deep dive into why can be found here), but why did we choose to move to and settle in…

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    Central Europe (Summer 2024): Prague -> Vienna -> Bratislava -> Budapest

    Ashley BurgosOctober 7, 202402.4K views

    Prague: Day 1 (Saturday): On the first day of this trip, we took the fast train from Zaragoza to Madrid, and then a taxi to the airport. We flew to Prague with…

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    Some Things that are Different in Schools in Spain than in the USA (IMO)

    Ashley BurgosSeptember 14, 202402.5K views

    In this post I am going to discuss some of the differences I have noticed between schools in Spain, and schools in the United States. It is not exhaustive, obviously. I am…

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    One Thing I Wish We Would Have Done Differently When We Moved to Spain? (hint: it’s school related)

    Ashley BurgosSeptember 7, 202402.7K views

    Here it goes, my biggest personal regret regarding our move to Spain- take a deep breath, because it’s going to be big one: Not putting our school-aged child into a Spanish school…

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