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🎭 Bilingual Adult Immersion Game Night – Friday, June 13th!
🎭 Bilingual Adult Immersion Night – Friday, June 13th! 🇪🇸🇺🇸 Join us for a fun and engaging evening at our bimonthly bilingual Adult Immersion class! We’ll challenge ourselves and bond through the universal language by playing Charades 🎉🗣️📍 Sant Doménec, 32, Xàtiva, Valencia 🕖 Friday, June 7 at 7:00 PM Let’s create unforgettable memories and share plenty of laughter 🤩🤣 See you there! 🙌
Darcie Khanukayev
May 221 min read


Why is Everything Closed?
It's like fish swimming in water — they don't even notice it. Take them out, plop them into new waters, and it’s traumatic. That's exactly what happens when you’re transplanted into the rhythms of a new culture. After six years in Spain, I still don’t think I’ll ever fully get used to Spain’s daily tempo.
Darcie Khanukayev
Apr 302 min read


Castles, and Dragons, too
The late afternoon air whipped my hair wildly, blocking and then revealing to me the vast plain tinted gold and rich pink. As the sun slid behind distant hills, the air not only whipped my body, but also my soul. The glory extended out of me into laughter, and it, too, was whipped away.
«This is my Queendom», I told myself, pretending I was living hundreds of years ago in this very place. In my glee, I secretly searched for a silhouetted dragon flying out of the setting su
Darcie Khanukayev
Apr 252 min read


For Whom the Bells Toll
I woke with a start. Blinding rays of sunlight lit up the room like a divine spotlight, and I fumbled for my watch with a growing sense of d
Darcie Khanukayev
Apr 92 min read


🌄 DarKha Bilingual Hiking Adventure! 🥾🌿
🌄 DarKha Bilingual Hiking Adventure! 🥾🌿Join us for our next Bilingual Hike on Sunday, April 13 at 10:00 AM! Meet at the academy
Darcie Khanukayev
Apr 91 min read


Floods, Fiestas, and Finding Meaning: La DANA in Valencia
The morning after the DANA flood,I remember questioning the purpose of the intense weather warnings had sounded the evening before. It only
Darcie Khanukayev
Jan 172 min read


November 17, we are hiking🚶🏻♀️to La Ermita en el Puig.🥾
November 17, we are hiking🚶🏻♀️to La Ermita en el Puig.🥾 It’s an emblematic hermitage of Xàtiva very close to the urban center.
Darcie Khanukayev
Nov 16, 20241 min read


Magical Spain: Castles, Princesses, and Dragons!
˝Grwama, wuk!˝ Lily cried as she pointed a pudgy two-year-old finger at the family in front of us.
˝Grandma, it’s a princess family!
Darcie Khanukayev
Oct 27, 20242 min read


Bilingual Hiking! September 22, we are hiking🚶🏻♀️to Cove Negra, Xativa
September 22, we are hiking🚶🏻♀️to Cove Negra.🥾 An archaeological site that was home to Neanderthal man! Meet at the academy at 10 with
Darcie Khanukayev
Sep 10, 20241 min read
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