Marisa from Barcelona moved to Berlin for a new job and shares her experience of finding a flat. I hadn’t really thought much about how different Berlin would be from Barcelona, except of course the obvious language and climate difference. I learned German in school so I was quite happy to have that basis – [...]
Filed under: Adventures Abroad, Intercultural Differences, Moving to Another Country on January 2nd, 2012 | No Comments »
Jen from Denmark tells us how she had always dreamed of going abroad since she was little, despite the fact that her parents had a certain distaste for everything non-Danish. Read on for her explanation of how she decided to follow her dreams and the hardships she faced with her family. I was raised in [...]
Filed under: Adventures Abroad, Moving to Another Country on December 13th, 2011 | No Comments »
Patrick from Ireland takes a different twist on saying goodbye to his friends and family before moving overseas to Algeria. I’ve read a lot of different tips online concerning how to properly say goodbye to your friends and family before going abroad. Now I know that most of these tips are pretty self-explanatory but I [...]
Filed under: Expat Advice, Moving to Another Country on December 1st, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Michael from San Francisco went on a 2 year expat assignment to Zurich Switzerland and recalls how incredibly unprepared he was for what awaited him in this foreign country. I had always wanted to go to Switzerland, I am a big fan of skiing and where can one ski better than in the Swiss Alps?! [...]
Filed under: Culture Shock, Expat Advice, Intercultural Differences, Moving to Another Country on November 4th, 2011 | No Comments »
There are thousands of reasons to move abroad: an interesting job, the whole family moving, girlfriend or boyfriend living abroad, or simply feeling like experiencing life somewhere else. It may also be the case that for economic, political, climatic, or other reasons, you do not want to spend the rest of your life in your [...]
Filed under: Expat Families & Relationships, Moving to Another Country on September 21st, 2011 | No Comments »
Eric, a 37 year old graphic designer from America, shares some reflections on the concept of home with us. Usually people start conversations by introducing themselves and giving a few basic facts: what they do, how old are they, where they come from. This last part is the question I actually cannot answer… I’ll explain [...]
Filed under: Moving to Another Country, Third Culture Kids on August 12th, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Moving is never an easy task, especially if one is moving an entire household overseas. The most important part is keeping your cool, which is obviously easier said than done. If you are packing by yourself without the help of a moving company, it is always much more difficult to keep an overview of everything. [...]
Filed under: Expat Advice, Moving to Another Country on August 5th, 2011 | No Comments »
Bridget, a British mother of two, tried to find a middle ground between her two children’s differing opinions on moving abroad again. Before we went on our last voyage as globetrotting parents, my husband Lewis and I faced a surprising dilemma concerning our two children Maya and Max. They were both born in England and [...]
Filed under: Culture Shock, Expat Advice, Expat Families & Relationships, Moving to Another Country on August 1st, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Janne from Tampere, Finland recalls his first impressions of his new home in Granada, Spain. When Spaniards ask me where I come from their response to my answer usually has something to do with the difference in climate! Of course the weather was a huge change for me, but more so the people! We Finns [...]
Filed under: Culture Shock, Intercultural Differences, Moving to Another Country on July 29th, 2011 | No Comments »
Originally from the United States, Jamila has lived most of her life abroad. After 25 years of living in Quebec, Holland and then Spain, she follows her husband George back to the US. What she thought would be a relatively easy and uneventful readjustment to American culture, surprised her by being almost even more difficult [...]
Filed under: Culture Shock, Intercultural Differences, Moving to Another Country, Repatriation on July 21st, 2011 | 1 Comment »