Posts Tagged ‘expat life’
Hannah in Motion
Hannah is an actress, model and massage therapist living in Turkey. Her blog is a reflective, often poignant look at life in Turkey.
The Golden Papaya
The Golden Papaya is the blog of a poet and Peace Corps volunteer living in Brazil. Her observations and reflective posts capture moments of expat life.
Existential Migration: Feeling at Home as the Foreigner
I could tell it was time to move on. Eight years I had spent working for the same company. It had been good for both me and them, but times were changing. My boss and mentor had been let go, and the business focus of my department was shifting away from my core skill set. I needed to find something new to do.
This is the position I found myself in during the first few months of 2008. I thought about what I wanted to do next, and came up with a number of options, including moving to another division, moving to another company, starting a new career, starting my own business or going back to school. I spent a month musing on my next move. One idea kept coming forward, getting stronger and stronger as the month progressed. In March, about two weeks before I finally made a final decision on what I would do, I decided to create a list of the options and my thoughts on what I should do next. For one of the options, I wrote the following:
Option: Quit job and move to London.
Analysis: Least sensible option, but for some reason this feels important to do.
Shutterbug Scribbler
Shutterbug Scribbler is the blog of Shehani, a 30-something Canadian who has been living in Madrid for the past three years. Her descriptions and stories from daily life are complemented by bright and colourful photography.
Saran Surviving Vienna
Saran is a self-described over-educated, underemployed African-American living in Vienna. Her blog is an honest look at the struggles of getting by in a foreign city without being allowed to get a job.
My Several Worlds
Carrie Marshall is a writer, photographer and culture vulture who has lived in Taipei since 2006. Her blog covers her and her husband John’s jaunts through Asia and beyond.
My Life in Havaianas
In March 2008, Loquinha Gauchinha moved to Brazil with a simple desire to take ownership of her life. She is now living the expat life in Porto Alegre.
The Travel Expert(a)
Marina Villatoro is a passionate traveller-turned-expat who just moved to Guatemala with her husband and son, after living the expat life in Costa Rica.
Where in the World are the Kittels?!
The Kittels are family of seven living the expat life in Costa Rica. Kelly, mom, writes the blog, which provides a fascinating insight into life abroad.
4 Ways to Help Kids Adjust to the Realities of Life Overseas
My children officially became Third-Culture-Kids (TCKs) when they stepped off an airplane into a hot dusty Saharan night in April, 2001. The stars were obscured by sand and the wind felt like it was coming off an oven, but we were all too tired to care. My oldest was nearly 6, and the twins had just celebrated their 4th birthday. In 28 hours, including layovers, we had traversed the globe, moving from Portland, Oregon (USA) to Nouakchott, Mauritania (West Africa) with 12 suitcases and one guitar. None of our luggage showed up with us.
Although I had read myriad articles and books on raising children between cultures, nothing really prepared me for that first meal of goat head; or for how I would react to children wanting to sit next to me on the couch when it was 115 degrees out and I was sweating in places I had no idea it was possible to sweat.
