Premium Content Tiempo de la Familia: My Profound Impact
by Charles Mitchell Parrish - August 12, 2009
Discuss a major personal experience, achievement, risk or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.
A thousand miles away from home, I sat in a cramped apartment littered with Bruce Springsteen CDs, listening to my Spanish home-stay family talk about their day. Every evening, just before dinner, the four of us would gather for tiempo de la familia (family time). Nuria and I would chat about her friends in Oviedo. Emilio would discuss his work as…
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