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Is This Really Happening?

May 25, 2010

in Daily Life, Moving

Today is our last day in Linyi. I’ve still got two boxes to pack up and a bit of cleaning to do. Tomorrow morning we fly to Beijing to start our search for a new home. I feel strangely numb about the whole process, probably because I haven’t had enough coffee. I should be excited, [...]

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To Expat Moms in Beijing

March 23, 2009

in Beijing, China, Expat Life, Global Nomad/TCK

If I had kids and if I lived in Beijing, I would attend this seminar sponsored by the Beijing International SOS clinic:  Understanding Third Culture Children – 13th May 2009 (But I don’t and I don’t so I won’t, but I love to promote TCK events! If you’re an expat mom, you’re raising TCKs!) I couldn’t [...]

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Home is With Me

February 21, 2009

in Expat Life, Philosophy

Birds in flight, claims the architect Vincenzo Volentieri, are not between places, they carry their places with them. We never wonder where they live: they are at home in the sky, in flight. Flight is their way of being in the world. –Geoff Dyer Found on P. 80 of Pico Iyer’s The Global Soul, a book that [...]

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Reverse Culture Shock

September 29, 2006

in China, Expat Life, Spain

Anyone who has traveled away from their homeland has probably felt the effects of culture shock – you know, the weird feeling you get when you realize that you are no longer in Kansas. This is inevitable. For an American, culture shock shows up in funny ways – like noticing that no one outside of [...]

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