Kristýna went to uni classes for a week and then took off again, this time to Tenerife with her mom. Lauren is a proper student and so she kept going to classes, where to her words “nothing great happened but also nothing awful happened”. Madrid is currently working on improving the cercanías train lines and so it creates a lot of traffic issues. So Kristýna and Lauren ranted about how annoying and stressful it is to try to get to places now.

The topic of emotions and feelings is very close to us right now. We've been going through a lot these past few year. We have been challenged to say the least. And sometimes we wonder, if we are too dramatic, or if we experience things too heavily, or if what we feel is even normal. But the truth is, we can't necessarily do anything about it. We just have to accept that we feel deeply and let it go. Because asking ourselves the never answered question 'why' doesn't get us anywhere.

Our book club isn't going as great as we'd love to because we are both a little confused about what we're reading about. But we are determined to continue and figure it out. There is a lot of new seasons of shows coming out, which we don't have a lot of time for but we will for sure get into that.

Hopefully, you can relate to this episode:).

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L&K 

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Sooo... this episode was a fun one to edit. We were both in a really good mood while recording: Kristyna was finally out of the difficult transition phase that comes moving back and forth between two countries and we'd both just enjoyed a sunny day at the park. We talk about our first BodyCross and Zumba classes (Lauren was really just thrown into it...) and look back at a week full of classes.

And then for the traditional bookclub! This one's an exciting one 'cause Kristyna took Lauren's advice and read Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. And (of course!) she loved it. You can also expect a passionate rant about Kristyna's new book light (she highly recommends it)!

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Kristýna finally arrived to Madrid as well but before she left, she went to visit her grandparents, did some last minutes doctor’s appointments and spend the day of her flight with her sisters. Since the university classes already began, Lauren had a rough week (going to Spanish classes alone, without Kristýna made it even worse). But we went to an amazing concert of an Eurovision contestant Amanda Tenfjord that made us both very happy. The production was just… something else.

In the main part of this episode we dove into the heavy topic of going back and forth between Madrid and our home countries. It has been extremely difficult since the beginning and the scariest thing is that it never gets easier. Only the cause and reason of the difficulty changes over time. We would have never thought we would have to go through anything like this and the cycle is becoming emotionally draining. At least the good thing is that now, you can find a lot of content that you can indentify with and relate to. Because that really helps you feel normal and that you are not overreacting over what’s happening with you. We compared leaving for Madrid in the past and now as well as going home the first time and the other times.

In the book club part, we celebrate Kristýna’s amazing achievement of finally finishing The Wuthering Heights and Lauren announces she’s started reading her dad’s newly published book called The Sedan!

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L&K

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In this episode, we catch each other up on our lives: What did we spend January doing? We talk about New Years, spending time with family and friends back home, coming back to Madrid for our Economics exam, a trip to Gran Canaria... and so on and so forth. 

This has become a tradition: After every semester of our Journalism degree, we dedicate an episode to recapping the classes of the past months. Information Law, Documentary Film, Radio Journalism, etc. We had a wide range of classes this year. Some we liked more than others. Certain courses were a bit more challenging than others. And some completely destroyed us. And we're here to talk about it all! 

As always, we end this episode with a short bookclub session. Lauren still hasn't finished the book she started in November, but has instead started a new one called "The Vanishing Half". And Kristyna just finished a Swedish book that she really enjoyed.

We hope you enjoy this conversation. Thanks for listening!

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First of all: HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We hope you had a nice time celebrating the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023 last night. And we wish you all the best for this new year!

We wanted to surprise you with this bonus episode: It's the second part of our conversation with a friend of ours who shared her own experience moving and living abroad with us. We're not gonna lie; this second part is a little more random and chaotic than the first. Nevertheless, it was an entertaining and insightful conversation that we think you'll enjoy!

As always, we give you the rundown of our past week: The semester ended and we flew back to our home countries for Christmas!

We hope you enjoy this special bonus episode!

Also: Lauren forgot her microphone in Madrid. So, please forgive her and excuse the not so great quality of the audio...

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In our last week before going home, we managed to study, do a secret activity that Kristýna planned and nobody had any idea about, have an amazing Christmas dinner with our friend group and study some more. The days have gotten way longer and more draining but we’re almost there (at least that’s what we keep saying each other to not go crazy).

Kristýna writes herself a letter every year and so we decided to do that too in a different way. We wrote a letter to each other (we were supposed to do it in the beginning of the semester but Lauren kept forgetting and wrote it 2 weeks prior) and now read it out loud accompanying it with great comments of course. It was a lot of fun and it was really sweet.

This is our last episode of the year 2022 and we hope you will continue being with us in the next one! Happy Holidays!

With love,

L&K

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We have not been doing much. Well, that’s a lie, we have been studying like crazy. It’s just that we have a pretty regular routine going on everyday and so it’s not as interesting. We did have one day though that was a bit different and we both enjoyed it very much. We needed to go to the centre to run some errands and we turned it into a date with ourselves, kind of.

The year of 2022 is slowly (very quickly acually) coming to an end and we have been coming up with some habits and goals we would love to focus on in the future. We are not big fans of the concept of New Year's resolutions because we want to do these things in the long run, not necessarily just achieve them in one year, per se. It's always good to try to improve ourselves, adapt new habits, not be afraid of trying new things and so that's what we want to do.

Yet again, we didn't talk about books in our so called 'book club' section. We just don't have the motivation right now. BUT we finally (!!) finished The Circle season 4 and it was very bittersweet. Everybody was so cute and nice that it was almost sad to watch them go home. Kristýna discovered that Lauren has never seen a single second of the Twilight saga and she felt the urge to fix that. And so we kicked off the Twilight marathon and will keep reporting on that!

With love,

L&K

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A lot happened this past week: Lauren went on a work trip to Frankfurt, Kristyna had a very disappointing experiencing trying to go to the official lighting of the Christmas lights in Madrid, Lauren had a stressful experience being the editor of a news program for our Radio class, we went to a Christmas vegan baking class, and Lauren got food poisoning (this is unrelated to the vegan baking class!).

This week we have a special guest: We interviewed a friend and got to hear her perspective on moving and living abroad. She's originally from the US, spent some time in England and is now living in here in Spain. We loved talking to her about how she experienced the transition from one country to another. What culture shocks did she experience? How did she make friends? How do you get used to speaking different languages and how does your personality change depending on what language you're speaking?

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We both got sick. I mean, Lauren has been sick for a very long time now (she basically skipped a whole month of pilates classes) and Kristýna couldn’t resist anymore. This being said, you might think that we didn’t do anything, which is a very wrong assumption. We did rest during the weekend (we were forced to) but during the week, we did many other things. We filmed a TikTok (as an assignment for school!!), Kristýna cried multiple times and had a breakdown and Lauren was just trying to survive.

We switch in between multiple languages all the time. Now that we live abroad and study in a non-native language, we constantly use various languages and sometimes it is really hard. Our love for languages is still strong and growing but also we struggle with it a little bit. You have to distinguish each person according to the language you speak with them, then when you're writing an assignment, you need to make sure you're using the appropriate language etc. Not to mention our inability to be able to express ourselves well in any of the languages. But it's also fun. In most of the situations we feel frustrated, we just laugh. (Because that's all we can do hahah)

We haven't been reading so at the end, we talked about our recent new music discoveries and some other (very important) things. Enjoy!

With love,

L&K

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We had a boring, but stressful and productive week. A lot of studying, exams, assignments... Basically one deadline after another. At this point we really just need the semester to end and our break to be here. But within all the stress we did have some nice moments: Lauren got to spend time with a dog (!) and Kristyna has developed a nice morning routine, since she keeps accidentally waking up super early...

This episode's main topic is everything related to books. We talk about when we started reading and how our reading habits have changed. Where we get our books from and how that has changed throughout the years. How we lost our love for reading a bit throughout high school when we had a lot of mandatory reading. The reason we read and the different ways in which books add something to our lives. All of it. We talk about all of it. And honestly we could've continued talking about books for another hour.

To end the episode Kristyna updated us on the Christmas movies that she's been watching. And how it feels to have finished watching Gilmore Girls (again). 

We loved recording this episode and we hope you enjoy listening to it, as this is one of our favorite topics.

L&K

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