Let's Chew the Fat

Once again, Lauren got sick. Luckily, it wasn't anything crazy this time around and she got better pretty quickly. And good thing she did because her and her dad got the opportunityx to go watch a Madrid open tennis match and it was very nostalgic. Kristyna went to visit her friend to Valencia, where she is studying on Erasmus and she had an amazing time! She watched a sunset, played beach volleyball, padel, worked... It was a busy few days.

Since we are university students and we're at the end of another semester (which is crazy) and exams are knocking at our door, we talked about when we feel the most productive, when we tend to procrastinate and also how!

We haven't progressed with our books too much but Kristyna talked about the lacrosse tournament happening in her hometown and how amazing it feels to be a part of something that brings people together. We also side tracked and talked about BeReal for a second. And of course, songs of the week!

With love,

L&K

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We're on a bit of an interesting recording schedule these days, due to sickness and travel. So, for this episodes weekly recap, we decided to just focus on our weekend trip to Barcelona. Since we have a lot to talk about! The trip finally managed to make it out of the group chat and us and our friends enjoyed three days in Barcelona. We didn't get a lot of sleep, but we definitely made the most out of our time there and made so many great memories.

For the main topic, we discuss our habits and routines. We talk about whether or not we like and/or need routines, what habits we cherish or would like to implement in our lives, study routines that have paid off... and a lot more! We even look back at our childhoods and how present routines were in our day to day lives back then.

As always, we end the episode with our bookclub. We've been VERY busy, so, we haven't been reading and watching much. We're both still stuck on the same books... But we do have our songs of the week to share: Lauren chose 'Bad Omens' by 5SOS and Kristyna chose 'Wonderland' from Seafret's newest album.

We hope you enjoy listening to this episode!

With love,

L&K

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We are in our concert girly era and we love it. Last weekend, we didn't go to one concert... We went to two! The first one was of SYML, where we went with the whole friend group and it was amazing. Brian (the lead singer) waqs interactong with the audience in a very special way and even took Kristýna's BeReal picture! The next morning, we watched the new Lewis Capaldi Netflix documentary, which was great. And the day after that, Birdy concert happened and we were just... so happy.

In this episode's main part, we've decided to talk about future. And aůll the stress around that. Because somehow, it always seems like such a scary thing but in the end, we always look back at some points of our life and we say, hm, it wasn't that bad. So this episode is very honest but hopefully also encouraging. (We loved talking about this topic.)

In the book club section, we talked about the Lewis Capaldi documentary some more, Kristýna is currently reading Cather in the Rye, Lauren isn't reading at all but of course, we enjoyed our song of the week section. Hope you do too!

With love,

L&K

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In this episode, we look back at a week containing a migraine, the end (finally!) of Kristyna's sickness, a hectic Thursday, and Lauren's dad's book event. And: The beginning of the most stressful part of the semester. Slowly but surely, all of the deadlines are getting closer and closer and stress-levels are starting to increase. It's very exciting...

For the main part, we decided to talk about a topic that is outside of what we usually focus on. We talk about our relationship with our bodies, food, and sports, what we've struggled with, what we've learned, and where we're at now. Insecurities regarding your body and a complicated relationship with food and sports is something that most people deal with at some point in their lives and in some shape or form. That why we figured it would be an interesting topic to discuss and we wanted share our experience with it.

This episode ends with our bookclub, as always. Lauren made pretty much zero progress with her book. But Kristyna finished reading the book 'Subtweet' and really enjoyed it. We also talk about 'Love is Blind' and, of course, share our songs of the week!

We hope you enjoy listening to this episode.

With love,

L&K

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Kristyna was sick this past week, that’s why there wasn’t any new podcast episode last Sunday. Lauren’s grandparents finally arrived. But the weekend before all went down, we got to do a little trip to Patones de Arriba. We wanted to see a local Grand Canyon but for one small particular reason, what turned out to be quite an important detail, we didn’t get to. But we hiked anyways and it was (once again for many reasons) an unforgettable experience.

Right in the beginning of our podcast journey, we talked about our culture shocks of living abroad in Spain. By then, we have only lived here for a couple of months. So today, after having lived in Madrid for almost two years, we’ve decided to do an updated version!

In the book club section, we talked about some shows like How I Met Your Mother or Love is Blind, Lauren has started reading a new book but most importantly, in our Song of the Week segment, Kristyna had to rap! She lost the first round of the song poll and this was the "punishment".

Hope you like it!

With love,

L&K

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We begin this episode like we do any other: By looking back at our past week. We both spent a good amount of the weekend working, enjoyed a Monday off (we still don't know why we didn't have university class) painting at the park, played padel, and went on a spontaneous train trip to a beautiful village outside of Madrid (Lauren's newest "highlight of her life"). So, all in all, a successful week!

We decided to dedicate the main part of this episode to a very important topic: Daisy Jones & The Six the Series. We briefly touch on our our opinions of the book (we loved it, obviously), but mostly focus on what we thought of the show adaption. And a warning: There are a lot of spoilers. So, if you haven't read the book / watched the show and our still planning too, maybe come back to this episode later. Honestly, this episode contains some very passionate conversations and speeches. Pretty sure, this is the most strongly we've ever felt about any podcast episode topic. (I don't know what that says about us...) We're also very interesting in hearing your opinions on the book and the show – please let us know!

As always, we end the episode with our bookclub: Lauren finally finished the book she's been reading for the past three months – what a day! And we share our songs of the week with you. (This time around you get three, initially, we chose the same song...)

We hope you'll enjoy this episode.

With love,

L&K

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We had an amazing and eventful weekend! The main even was a school run (that Lauren refuses to call anything else than MARATHON) and it was so much fun! Kristyna managed to run those 5 kilometres as Lauren and her sister watched. During the week, we did a lot of sport activities like padel and a mini hike to the (geographical) centre of the Iberian Peninsula, which we had on our list for quite some time haha.

Today, we dove into the positives of what studying abroad has brought us so far in these almost 2 years. And it is quite a list to be honest! We talked about our self-confidence growing, navigating new friendships while maintaining the ones from home and independence – that is a big one. When we got sick for the first time after leaving home, we felt a little scared. It feels uncomfortable not having your parents by your side in case you need them.

And our book club has a little update! More specifically, 'the song of the week' part. We are turning it into a little game, we want you to be able to participate too! Hope you like it:)

With love,

L&K

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As always, we spend the first part of this episode talking about our week. We both spent the last weekend working (not very eventful) and then started the week with an amazing university class: we were told to bring our dogs along! Which was incredible – no further explanation needed. We also had a stressful Adobe inDesign assignment, had our very last cooking class (we got the credit!), Lauren's sister arrived in Madrid and Kristyna went golfing for the first time in forever. For this episodes main topic we answered the questions that we were asked on Instagram – which was so much fun for us, we've always wanted to do this! We talked about getting the courage to study abroad, what to do when you're feeling homesick, how we became friends, what languages we speak, and a lot more.Finally, for our bookclub segment we discussed the books we've been discussing for weeks because we just can't seem to finish them... We talk about the newest episodes of 'You' and we each share our song of the week.

With love,

L&K

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Per usual, we start with recapping our week but lately we are having issues with remembering what we did during the weekend. Lauren went to get bagels and ice cream (!!!) and Kristýna went for a run after almost a year. Other than that, we didn't do a lot. And during the week, we had our second cooking class, a very busy Thursday; filming outside of university for our TV class and a bunch of other classes.

In the main part of this episode, as you can see from the title, we dive into our passion for concerts. Kristýna will soon celebrate a year of concert craziness, whereas Lauren has been in it for years. Some of our favorite artists that we saw live are Lewis Capaldi, 5 Seconds of Summer, Yungblud, Måneskin and more.

In our book club section, we talked about our impressions of the new season of You. And books? Haven't advanced much since last week. But we introduced a new mini-section, which is 'Song of the week'. So if you have any recommendations for us, let us know!

With love,

L&K

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This episode starts off with a harmless weekly recap: It wasn't our best week. We were tired and things just felt off. But we did have our first vegan cooking class of this semester, which was a lot of fun and brought us a great dinner!

For our traditional bookclub, we talk about the huge amount of new shows that are coming out at the moment. We just watched the first episode of the newest season of 'You' and Kristyna's already half through the new episodes of 'Outer Banks'.

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