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 »
A huge thank you to all of you who participated in the second part of the InterNations Survey Series: Striving for Global Excellence! We were very pleased with the overall turnout of the second part of our survey! We would like to take the opportunity to briefly inform our InterNations members of our preliminary findings. […]
Filed under: InterNations News, Polls & Surveys on July 29th, 2011 | No Comments »
Florence, fluent in both Dutch and French, has come across an interesting phenomenon in her bilingual personality which she briefly tells us about. Recently, I began asking myself to what extent we change when we speak a different language. Does our perception of reality change? Our emotions? Our attitudes? You may wonder why this question […]
Filed under: Intercultural Differences, Languages on July 27th, 2011 | 19 Comments »
Laura from Cornwall UK decided to take on a teaching job in Trapani, Sicily. Although an experienced expat, she was initially overcome by a surprising bout of homesickness and tells us how she overcame it! I’m quite the expert expat, I have lived in Germany for five years and in South Korea for one and […]
Filed under: Adventures Abroad on July 25th, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Here’s another Founder’s Diary, which we haven’t had in a while! InterNations co-founder Malte Zeeck went to the Cologne and Duesseldorf Communities last week to take part in their July Events and mix and mingle with members whilst keeping his ear open to praise and suggestions! Read on to see how it was! On Thursday […]
Filed under: InterNations News, InterNations Team News on July 22nd, 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 »
Guillaume, a young French banker from Marseilles, tells us about his initial experience working in Casablanca, Morocco. I was pretty excited when I got the proposition to move to Morocco for two years to help open the new branch of our bank in Casablanca. Upon hearing “Casablanca”, I immediately thought of the famous movie and […]
Filed under: Culture Shock, Intercultural Differences on July 19th, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Karolina started her job in Poznan, Poland, in an American company’s branch. She shares with us her first impressions of working in a Polish-American team. Right after finishing my M.A., I was lucky to come across an ad that an American company was opening a new branch in Poznan and was looking for someone with […]
Filed under: Intercultural Differences, International Workdays on July 13th, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Mohammad from Jordan moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA) for work recently and tells us of an experience with the American fast-food industry… Although it may be a stereotype, it is common knowledge to all Jordanians that Americans love their fast-food and quite often devour it with fervor! In my small town there are no McDonald’s, […]
Filed under: Adventures Abroad, Intercultural Differences on July 11th, 2011 | No Comments »
Leticia from San Francisco moved to Mumbai, India for a year to help get her social work project started at a local school. She tells us about her experience with the Indian public transportation system, more specifically the suburban trains. I live in Thane, which calls for a 35 – 45 minute ride with the […]
Filed under: Adventures Abroad, Culture Shock on July 8th, 2011 | 3 Comments »