A reader recently asked me what I missed “from back home that seemed like – maybe – a weird thing to miss for someone else.” I thought about this question, since, to say it is “weird” would assume that other things were not weird, that other things were normal or understandable. I got that. Surely when we move abroad we expect […]
Dominican Republic
The Non-Expat Others
I talk a lot about expat life and the people who are like us, the other expats. But there are others besides those expats who have molded our life; not “others” like the scary kind in Lost but, nonetheless, important characters that are a part of building the story. In our time here, our life has been touched […]
Beware: Holiday Shopping Ahead #InstAbroadMoment 10
(… on what happens when you aren’t from that country.) This is what happens when you don’t know. When you’re in your home country, you know the holidays, the shopping days, the busy hours, but here, I still forget those things. I knew today was a Dominican Independence Day; I was even off of work, and […]