After the famous Boston Marathon was overshadowed by the shocking bombings this year, it is perhaps time to remember what running a marathon is actually about: For many participants, it’s a highly personal event, an opportunity to push yourself to the limit, to discover new aspirations or make old dreams come true. Such a race [...]
Filed under: Adventures Abroad on May 10th, 2013 | No Comments »
This week, our guestblogger Jessica – a recent US repatriate from Belgium – talks about attending her first InterNations Event in Washington, DC. As most expats know, the moving process is always challenging. It takes a few months to get settled in and figure out a new city. As a “repat” (my version of the [...]
Filed under: Guest Author, InterNations Events & Activities, Repatriation on February 4th, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Our new guest blogger Jessica from Adventures of the Repatriate opens her series on repatriation with some musings on how it felt to move to the US after seven years of living overseas, in Belgium, and how she gets over being “homesick” for Brussels. We also have an interview with Jessica on her (former) expat [...]
Filed under: Adventures Abroad, Culture Shock, Guest Author, Repatriation on January 22nd, 2013 | 5 Comments »
Living abroad with children – everyone who has ever done it knows that most of the time, you can’t just carry on doing exactly what you used to do back home. Can you remain true to your family values and beliefs when circumstances change dramatically? Our guest blogger Abu Muhammed talks about his experiences raising [...]
Filed under: Adventures Abroad, Expat Families & Relationships, Intercultural Differences, Traditions and Customs around the World on June 20th, 2012 | No Comments »
As promised in our Blog on Tuesday, InterNations is pleased to introduce the remaining newly implemented Communities! Below you will find information about the city the Community is in and a bit about their respective Ambassadors. Bodrum, Turkey Originally a small fisherman’s town, Bodrum became popularized by a select few Turkish intellectuals around the 1950s. [...]
Filed under: InterNations Communities, InterNations News on May 5th, 2011 | 1 Comment »