When moving abroad, you definitely shouldn’t neglect the practical aspects amongst the general excitement — living expenses, housing, healthcare, and especially personal safety. In a 2014 study, over six in ten expats (62%) rated their safety as an “extremely important” factor of life abroad. No other aspect of everyday life in their destination was as […]
Filed under: Polls & Surveys on February 26th, 2016 | 7 Comments »
I’ve always been fascinated with language diversity, with people speaking two or more languages, as well as happily multilingual places — although (or maybe because) the environment I grew up in was pretty monolingual. Or so I thought, but more on that later. My current workplace couldn’t be any more different from my German-only childhood. […]
Filed under: Languages on February 19th, 2016 | No Comments »
Valentine’s Day is probably one of the most criticized holidays worldwide. While those with a particularly romantic streak look forward to it and make plans involving champagne, fancy dinners, and elaborate flower arrangements, others dread this day and maintain that it was invented by greeting card companies to maximize profits and torture unhappy single people. […]
Filed under: InterNations Communities, InterNations Events & Activities on February 16th, 2016 | 2 Comments »
Many of us start the New Year with a positive attitude and the resolution to get active and be healthy. The Volunteer Groups have certainly taken this approach on board and have spent the beginning of 2016 getting active for a good cause. By raising money and exercising with people (or dogs!) in need, our […]
Filed under: InterNations Changemakers, InterNations Communities on February 15th, 2016 | 6 Comments »
I always remember Pretoria with a certain nostalgic fondness: the last time I was here was twenty years ago, when my parents took us on a tour through South Africa. Pretoria is only 50 km away from Johannesburg, but it definitely has a very different character. Even though Pretoria is not exactly a metropolis, nor […]
Filed under: Adventures Abroad, Expat Advice, InterNations Team News on February 12th, 2016 | 4 Comments »
Return to South Africa After Ten Years Let’s get started indeed: I began the New Year in my role as InterNations Founder & Co-CEO with an extended trip to our three largest South African communities: Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Cape Town. I’d visited this beautiful country before, but it had been a while since I stayed […]
Filed under: InterNations News, InterNations Team News on February 12th, 2016 | No Comments »
The global age is the era of the social entrepreneur. Their innovative projects are the change agents for addressing burning issues, such as poverty, education, environment, or inequality. In fact, people all over the world are moving towards building sustainable businesses with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing problems. It is also the era of […]
Filed under: Guest Author, International Workdays on February 4th, 2016 | 2 Comments »