Hélène Rybol is the woman behind the Culture Shock Toolbox, a website for expats and international students – or future ones – and travelers, filled with musings, checklists and mantras. She’s also author of the ebook “Culture Shock – A Practical Guide”. CLEW is happy to feature her musings on how to get yourself to speak a […]
An expat wife goes back to work
20/01/2015 by 6 Comments
What happens when the (desperate) expat wife goes back to work? On and off throughout her expat (wife) years – and all of a sudden there are quite a few of them and she of course has no idea how that happened – the desperate expat wife has looked longingly into offices, missing the office […]
Sharing enlightens your holiday
19/12/2014 by Leave a Comment
Living abroad means that you might spend Christmas far away from family and friends. Even if new countries and new traditions might be very different from what you are used to, it all comes down to sharing with others. The first Christmas we celebrated abroad was in Canada, with an overwhelming amount of colored lights, […]
A culture shock guide for Christmas
10/12/2014 by Leave a Comment
Hélène Rybol is the woman behind the Culture Shock Toolbox, a website for expats and international students – or future ones – and travelers, filled with musings, checklists and mantras. Now she is out with an e-book on the same theme. Christmas gift idea? Culture Shock – A Practical Guide is a how-to guide that will help you […]
Living in another language
09/11/2014 by Leave a Comment
Hélène Rybol is the woman behind the Culture Shock Toolbox, a website for expats and international students – or future ones – and travelers, filled with musings, checklists and mantras. CLEW is happy to feature her musings on living in another language. So I’ve been thinking about what happened when I started living in another language. […]
Luxembourgers abroad: Anne Faber
31/10/2014 by Leave a Comment
CLEW talks to Luxembourgers abroad. Meet Anne Faber – a (food) journalist and cookbook author with her own cooking TV show. Anne has – among many other things – eaten her way through London for a living. 1. When did you move away from Luxembourg, whereto and why? I left Luxembourg to pursue my studies in […]
Creative artist on two continents
13/10/2014 by Leave a Comment
Christina Roos is a Swedish ceramist, illustrator and assistant professor, with studios in Houston and on an island in Gothenburg’s archipelago. She gets inspiration from her everyday life. The tasks are many, and so are the challenges. The electrical gate opens silently an early morning hour. The low building, covered with corrugated iron, sits lonely […]
Marathon of memories
07/09/2014 by Leave a Comment
When you’re an expat, you need to come back to places of good memories: Walk the streets of the city love of your life, slightly puzzled that people keep smiling at you then realising you have this constant, possibly goofy, smile on your face yourself that you somehow can’t wipe off. The same streets you trotted […]
Luxembourgers abroad: Fernande Hastert Kuykendall
17/08/2014 by Leave a Comment
CLEW talks to Luxembourgers abroad. Meet Fernande Hastert Kuykendall, Honorary Consul to Luxembourg in the state of Arizona, U.S. 1. When did you move away from Luxembourg, whereto and why? I moved to California in November 1969, after marrying my American husband whom I met at the American Embassy in Luxembourg. After 10 years of living […]
Summer carousel II
02/08/2014 by Leave a Comment
More summer from the CLEW photographers… Photos by Anje Kirsch and Unni Holtedahl, summer 2014. ©2014 Anje Kirsch and Unni Holtedahl
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