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How to make your house a home when living abroad
It’s about making your house feel like home, even if the outside world still feels foreign. Continue reading How to make your house a home when living abroad
Category: Lifestyle
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Twenties Under Pressure: A Global Challenge
Being in your twenties is no longer synonymous with being ‘young and free’. Continue reading Twenties Under Pressure: A Global Challenge
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A Guide for Friends & Partners: How to Support Someone Feeling Homesick
As part of The Homesickness Series, I am exploring how friends and partners can help their loved ones when they are feeling homesick, Continue reading A Guide for Friends & Partners: How to Support Someone Feeling Homesick
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Why third culture kids are not ‘ordinary’
When you are part of the international expat community, being the exception can feel ordinary. In reality, however, migrants make up just 3.6% of the world’s population. Continue reading Why third culture kids are not ‘ordinary’
Time is not going by faster — we are just wasting it
I recently read that the average life expectancy is about 80 years — or 4,160 weeks. I am 1,300 weeks down and I have spent my time sleeping, working, watching TV, and scrolling through my phone. Here is what a 2.5-hour flight taught me. Continue reading Time is not going by faster — we are just wasting it
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My most valuable possession? My grandmother’s recipe book
Growing up, I rebelled against cooking, believing I would be conforming to gender norms that I did not wish to promote. Now, as an adult, I see my grandmother’s recipe book with different eyes. Continue reading My most valuable possession? My grandmother’s recipe book
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Expats reveal the best (and worst) places for starting out
On 21 March, InterNations published its Expat Essentials Index, revealing the 52 countries that make life abroad easiest – and the ones that make it the most difficult. Continue reading Expats reveal the best (and worst) places for starting out
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A London-based event that left me with a heart full of love
Last Friday, I visited an event held by Sync London: a community of artists that organises events showcasing the work of poets, musicians and stand-up comedians from around the world. Taking place in Metre Squared, a beautiful event space in … Continue reading A London-based event that left me with a heart full of love
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I am the woman I am today because my father believed I could be
The woman I am today has not been shaped solely by the women I have known. I am the woman I am today not only because of them, but also because of my father – a man whose role was equally important. Continue reading I am the woman I am today because my father believed I could be
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I have been shaped by the women I have met
With International Women’s Day rapidly approaching, I have been thinking about the woman that I am today and the things that have shaped me. Continue reading I have been shaped by the women I have met
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Anywhere can become “home”, if you let it
Being uprooted does not mean you cannot put down roots again. It is up to us where we grow. Continue reading Anywhere can become “home”, if you let it
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Relocation: through the eyes of a 6-year-old and a grown woman
For the fourth time in twenty-four years, I have moved abroad. The first time I moved abroad, I was only six years old and I did not have much of a say on the matter. To be frank, I did … Continue reading Relocation: through the eyes of a 6-year-old and a grown woman
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