Founder’s Diary: The InterNations Helsinki Community

InterNations founder and CEO Malte Zeeck visited our community in Copenhagen this spring, but now he had the opportunity to get a glimpse of local life in another northern metropolis. Read more about his trip to Helsinki below. After I’d been to a few of our Northern and Eastern European Communities around the Baltic Sea, […]

New Flower Ethopia: An Interview with Blogger Cynthia in Addis Ababa

In this interview series we let our members take the spotlight! Today, we are introducing Cynthia, an Australian expatriate who moved to Addis Ababa earlier this year. She blogs about her African adventure on New Flower Ethopia. Please tell us a little bit about yourself. Who you are, where you come from, when you moved […]

The Stages of Culture Shock – An Expat’s Individual Journey

Our guest blogger Benjamin remembers what his first move to Europe taught him about culture shock. Wikipedia defines Culture Shock as “the personal disorientation felt when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life”. Culture shock can consist of four distinct phases: Honeymoon, Negotiation, Adjustment, and Mastery. Having lived in a few different places, I have experienced […]

The Second Biggest Killer in Iran

In his most recent contribution from Tehran, InterNations expat guestblogger Philip muses upon some morbid facts concerning Iranian traffic… I was recently picking through some data in a trade magazine for international companies wishing to enter the Iranian market (not many these days) and stumbled on some quite morbid facts about this Middle Eastern nation. […]

Surviving in Italy: An Interview with Blogger Misty in Florence

In this interview series we let our members take the spotlight! This week, we are introducing Misty, a former art student from the US who fell in love with Italy – and an Italian guy. She talks about her new life and her struggles with love, language, and culture on Surviving M.E. Please tell us […]

The Joy of Trendy

Our latest guest blogger, Connie Mudore, tells us about a confusing “language lesson” that she received while settling in in her new hometown of Chiang Mai, Thailand. Living in Thailand is a daily non-stop language lesson. I keep discovering new meanings for English words I thought I knew and learning Thai words I have never […]