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 […]
Holidays
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 […]
The Trouble with Resolutions and How To Fix It
I’ve ditched resolutions. Full ditch. No remorse. Resolutionless. It isn’t that I don’t like the idea of goals, I just feel like convincing myself to do something – now – that I’ve had a whole year to do is sort of silly reasoning. (Lose weight. Ehhh. Start working out. Meh. Quit drinking. Definitely not.) I could have done […]