There comes a time in an expat’s time abroad when they will have to make an expat’s most fundamental choice, the choice to move on. Many expats, after all, are expats because they are only temporarily residing in a country. The move was always the control, the when being the variable. Sometimes the decision to leave is easy. The […]
Life
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 […]
Missing Out: The Art of Not Missing It
When you live abroad, you spend a lot of time missing out on things: the birth of babies, the union of two souls, the showering of a bride to be… and those are just the big ticket items. The smaller things also get glossed over: Friday happy hours, Saturday BBQs, birthdays, holiday parties. You get it… we miss […]