Surviving the first few months of Teaching abroad
Teaching abroad can look glamorous on social media- new experiences, a foreign land, exotic food and it all looks like…
Tag: being an expat
10 lessons about expat life: a 10 year review
Moving abroad as a fresh faced, newly graduated 21 year old for the first time, was the toughest thing I…
How being an expat prepared me for life during a pandemic
Covid-19 has hit us all hard- overnight, everything and everyone we knew, was upside down or unavailable. Like everybody else, expats…
To leave or not to leave… the expat’s eternal dilemma
I know I am not ready to leave Dubai. But I also know I cannot stay any longer. What am…
What should YOU do if someone you know is moving abroad?!
It’s the season where lots of people have accepted jobs abroad and are preparing to shift their lives to a…
Losing your job while living abroad
Losing your job is always traumatic no matter where you are; but losing your job abroad is somewhat more perplexing…
Life in the Middle East: Expat Women Speak Out
A lot of people accuse me of lying. They think I lie about what life is like in the…
The unglamorous life of an Expat Blogger
Whenever people hear that I have a blog (a piece of information usually revealed by someone in my company and…
The Expat Life: Conversations with people “back home”
I don’t know about you, but I am so tired of hearing the same boring statements from people we left…
Which kind of Expat are you?
It takes all sorts of people to make the world go round. This I know. I also know which kinds…
