White clouds sail awayAnd hey what’s not to loveAbout today Good things on the wayAnd hey what’s not to loveAbout catching rays – from “A Cat in the Sun” by Aselin Debison
Macho HQ
20/03/2013 by 1 Comment
The desperate expat wife is blond enough to know next to nothing about cars. She likes to name her cars, they’re always female, and always small and cute and quite old, but she’ll forget from one time to the next how to open the hood. She’s very protective of her cute little car and doesn’t much care about big […]
Anchorage’s crazy social season
13/03/2013 by 2 Comments
You would think that people stayed inside their warm, cozy homes during the cold Alaskan winter. Well, they do not. The more snow that falls or the colder it gets – the more galas and celebrations! The season kicks off right after New Year’s. They have hardly had time to clean up before the Fire […]
Friendship divorce
09/03/2013 by Leave a Comment
Expat dictionary: Friendship divorce. Either a two-way split-up, when friends mutually, often tacitly, agree on a divorce, or one-way, when a friend divorces you and you want her to stay, or vice versa. Separation by geography can be a contributing factor to a friendship divorce. If we stay friends with our childhood friends – the […]
Babel Bubbles
21/02/2013 by 2 Comments
When you move to a new country, learning the local language should be a must – at least it’s a very good idea – as a sign of respect, humility and willingness to adapt, but also to make it easier for yourself to get to know people and how things work. I know all this, […]
Body language in Brazil
06/02/2013 by 5 Comments
Two times I have lived in Ipanema, a narrow strip of land between the ocean and the lagoon in Rio de Janeiro. A city that has the most wonderful people, the most delicious food and the greatest climate! I guess most of you have heard the famous song The Girl from Ipanema, a luscious Bossa […]
The Monty Python Approach to Expat Life
28/01/2013 by Leave a Comment
New to expat life (as an expat wife?) or simply still dealing with it? In the true spirit of Monty Python – here’s the bright side: 1. The Melting Pot Thingy If you knock on your neighbour’s doors, you’d easily count to at least 10 nationalities. In a crowded restaurant, you’d quickly lose count. In […]
Living the good life in Alaska
15/01/2013 by 2 Comments
When most people think about Alaska, their first thoughts are usually snow, darkness, salmon and gold miners. However, it’s not as cold and dark as you think and Alaska has so much more to offer. When I told my expat friends in Houston that we were moving to Alaska, their jaws dropped and their eyes […]
The Expat Limbo
13/01/2013 by 3 Comments
From the Expat Dictionary: expat limbo. A condition of being between a rock and a hard place in which you might find yourself after a certain time as an expat. Your home country being the rock, your new country the hard place or vice versa. Somebody once said to us: “If you want to go […]
Expat life and second chances
01/01/2013 by Leave a Comment
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. – Harrison Ford. The famous second chance. Normally, we all deserve at least one, but I would say several of them. That is of course because we all need them, very few of us are superhuman. And we need […]
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