00:00My name is Mia and 4 years ago I left Ireland and moved to Tenerife with my son and my partner.
00:05My son was 2 years old at this time and now he's 7 and I'm letting you guys into a typical
00:09day in our lives.
00:10This is the most typical day.
00:12We woke up, the first thing my son asked was to go to the pool.
00:14We go to the pool literally twice a day.
00:16At the moment we're minding a friend's dog so we just gave him some cuddles when we came
00:19home.
00:20There was laundry to do.
00:21All of the sand from the clothes always piles up in like the rubber bit in the washing machine
00:24so I clean that up, things that you don't think about when you're living abroad.
00:27Then I headed up to our roof terrace to hang out my load of laundry.
00:30This is the best thing about living in a country where the sun is always shining and it's always
00:34hot.
00:35It's so easy to do laundry.
00:36This was already my third load of the day.
00:37I had already put one out this morning that had fully dried.
00:40As you can see from the view there, the wind is kind of hazy and that is because we have
00:43a clima at the moment which is sand from the Sahara Desert up into the air in Tenerife.
00:48This is a really typical thing that happens in Tenerife but not the nicest thing to happen
00:51especially when the weather is already 30 degrees and it's already really humid and
00:55really hot.
00:56Extra sand does not help.
00:58I decided to clean the kitchen and then I made my dinner and I also started to meal
01:01prep for my meals the next day.
01:04At the moment I'm doing some personal training with an all-women's gym kind of situation
01:08that I found which I'm really happy I found and it took me four years to find so believe
01:11me when you move abroad it will take you some time to find your feet and find your people.
01:16After the gym I headed home and brought the dog for a walk and that was my day.
01:19My name's Mia.
01:20I'm four years ago.
01:21I moved from Ireland to Spain.
01:22I wanted to show you what a typical day looks like after I come home from work and collect
01:24Levi from school.
01:25What I'm about to show you might be really simple but it's one of the main reasons why
01:29I love living in Spain.
01:30The culture of like coming home turning on the telly just doesn't exist here.
01:33There's so much life after work and after school.
01:36There's so much life in the evening that happens here.
01:38This is around 6.30 to 7.15.
01:41We were heading to get our hair cut and yes that is him trying to flip me off.
01:44After the haircuts we headed to a home store called Leroy Merlin.
01:47One thing I will say is I miss the stores being filled with like Easter decorations.
01:50We celebrate Easter here but more of a religious side of it instead of like let's say the Easter
01:53bunny.
01:54So they don't have Easter bunny treats or Easter bunny decorations that you can get.
01:57Even though over the years I do see them converting more into these kind of holidays like for
02:01example Halloween wasn't a thing here when we came here four years ago but now they really
02:04do celebrate it.
02:05There's a little coffee shop attached so we did get a takeaway coffee and takeaway hot
02:09chocolate.
02:10By the way as well guys I'm going to do a video about culture shocks but one of them
02:12is that you will find a beer tap everywhere.
02:14Can you imagine walking into Woody's DIY at home in Ireland and there's just a beer tap?
02:18I've committed myself to spring cleaning my house all this week so I'm glad I got all
02:21these things.
02:22As I was walking out I noticed how beautiful the mountains were I had to take a video.
02:25If I ever left Tenerife I know I'd miss the mountains.
02:28If you don't know the story by now how my name is Mia I moved from Ireland to Tenerife
02:31to start a new life four years ago.
02:33I want to start committing to making more TikToks but that means bringing you along
02:36a normal day in our lives and not just the fun things so here we go.
02:38This is just a typical day in our life at the moment me and Levi are off for summer
02:41together and guys when I tell you it's getting hot in Tenerife it is so freaking hot.
02:46We went for a morning walk this morning reminding a friend's dog and on our way home we saw
02:50these two guys pull this electric scooter out of the ocean I have so many questions.
02:53I have been promising Levi some Star Wars Lego for pretty much all summer so we hit
02:57up two toy stores today one in Las Cristianas and then we headed to Siam Mall which I hate
03:02going to this toy store because it's so overly priced but anyway we secured the Lego.
03:06I stopped at Mercadona on the way home got some groceries and if you can see there I
03:09dropped my yogurt on the way up from the car.
03:12We spent the rest of the day making Lego.
03:13We then stopped off in the park for an hour and watched the most beautiful sunset and
03:17after we got home I just sat down and did some freelance work and of course adjusted
03:21the vision board because there's been some amazing life updates recently.
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