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Food in Spain

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Exploring Spain and India... Bite by Bite  Having grown up in Mumbai, I’ve grown accustomed to a specific way of life. I find immense comfort in waking up to temple bells reverberating, walking through alleys enshrouded in pungent masala aromas, eating bhindi bhaji for dinner, and residing in a labyrinthine maze of traffic and overpopulation.   much as Mumbai is home, being exposed to other cultures has always fascinated me. Spain, for example, is a country I’ve travelled to. I’ve walked down the cobbled outskirts of Marbella, through the extravagant palaces of the Alhambra, and I’ve tasted scrumptious seafood paella! However, my experience travelling to Spain is far from the reality of living in the country, which is why I was excited to converse the Spanish exchange students. They could provide a flash of insight into the realities of Spanish every-day life, through the lens of a teenager. We primarily chose to speak to the Spanish exchange students about the

Celebrating Independence: Comparing and Contrasting America and Honduras

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John Adams, a member of the continental congress said in a letter to his wife in 1776, Independence Day “ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shews, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other from the time forward forever more.” [1] Three centuries later, American has not forgotten this prophecy, for I have experienced the zeal, the patriotic fervor, first hand. John Adams It’s the same story every year: My mother shakes all of us awake at the crack of dawn on the 4 th of July [2] , we scramble, groggily, to get ready for the day (clad in all red, white and blue, of course), and we squeeze into the minivan, zooming off to the Lake Tahoe town square. The town parade is a spectacle: candy being tossed like confetti, children devouring corn dogs, country music twanging away, lawn chairs sprinkled across the streets, blueberry pancakes being flipped on steaming grills. The air smells like dough, like sweet sy