There are not many things, going on our fourth year abroad, that I have not come to accept. I’m not saying some things don’t still annoy me (cars beeping at lights that have just turned green, going to the supermarket to discover they don’t have three of the four ingredients I need, the power in the kitchen […]
Traditions
My Halloween Bucket and Why Traditions Abroad Matter
This past Halloween, our bucket was stolen. Just using the word – bucket – it wouldn’t seem like it would be a treasured object of priceless value. Bucket. It isn’t even a nice-sounding word. And if it was just a bucket, it wouldn’t be anything valuable. Unfortunately, the inexpensive and not at all unique bucket that was only […]