Hi! We’re Cara and Haider. We’re moving to Spain, and we wanted to start a blog to record our experiences, keep friends and family in the loop, and inform/inspire anyone who might be considering following in our footsteps.

We’ll be living in Madrid and working as English teaching assistants in the auxiliar de conversacion program through the Spanish Ministry of Education. We hope to post lots of useful information about this program and realities of expat life as time goes by, but in the meantime, feel free to reach out to us with any questions.

We’re a couple in our late twenties, and we enjoy traveling, hiking, camping, laughing, dancing, drinking, eating, pondering, learning, and many other -ings we may have yet to discover. While our close friends and peers are all getting married, buying houses and having babies, we’ve decided to leave behind our home in Philadelphia to embark on this open-ended adventure.

Cara has a professional background in e-commerce copywriting and plans to do as much freelance writing work as possible while we travel. A journalism junkie with a special fondness for NPR, she dreams of one day working in public radio. Haider has worked for years in the insurance field, has a degree in business, and is interested in pursuing a career in community development or international relations. If you’d like to hire one of us, please get in touch!