With a South African passport, South Asian heritage and my teacher's license, I am on a mission to explore all corners of the world. I am now living in my 5th country- Qatar (the richest country in the world)! While I love happy things like Disney movies, sampling desserts and petting dogs, I am also not afraid to write about the challenging side of moving abroad & travelling- passport privilege, identity struggles and prejudice. My blog showcases my life as a female African teacher in an interracial relationship living in the Middle East. Oh & I have guides for each destination that I have visited. There are NO affiliate links in my posts, adverts or ANY sponsored content! Read More...
Aneesa
Doha is a gorgeous city. While it may not have the charm of Buenos Aires’s eclectic streets or the history of Ireland’s castles, as far as modern cities go, it manages…
One of the things that persistently perplex me is the obsession with paperwork in the Gulf countries. Qatar and the United Arab Emirates- the former being where I currently reside and…
Do you ever wish for the opportunity to go back in time? All I want is to have ONE conversation with past Aneesa before I started teaching abroad and then I…
I have struggled as a teacher abroad. Not many people will be bold enough to admit this publicly but it’s true; I have been pushed to the depths of my misery…
On Instagram, we’ve been discussing grind culture a lot. While the discussion about it started relating to students, I’d like to approach it from a different angle- what about the grind…
I listened to my classmates gossip about the wedding they had all attended over the weekend, everyone discussing some cousin who was repeating an outfit they had been seen in at…
When my partner- Expat Polar and I first started dating, I had all these conditions and regulations that I needed him to accept about me. While he smiled and accepted them, little…
With many schools opening up across the world (well, those that follow the September-July academic year), I thought it would be great to be re-consider the WHY in the process of…
I always knew I wanted to be a chef from the time I watched the Disney classic… Ratatouille. Ok that’s not exactly true but Chef Remy is definitely part of my…
When I moved to Qatar from the United Arab Emirates in mid-February, I was nervous that Qatar was just not going to measure up in terms of the quality of life…
As you are well aware, global news tends to solely focus on the negative aspects of the African continent, so many people around the world only hear of the wars, disease,…
