December 29, 2005
If you’re a church-going practitioner of religion, you’ll want to locate a church, synagogue, mosque, temple, center, or whatever, at your new home overseas. Continue Reading
My previous post, and several stories I’ve told, mention Mormon missionaries. They represent some 10,000-30,000 expats and are therefore worthy of further introduction here. You may have seen them, walking or riding (bicycles, mostly) two-by-two in their white shirts and ties, or in their modest dresses. I have met them in Colombia, Japan, Poland, Italy,…
I was recently searching for expatriate resources on the Internet and came across a helpful resource: Expatriates.com. Billed as “the community website created for and by expatriates and internationally minded people everywhere,” this site focuses on providing bulletin boards, classified ads, and a resource directory of expatriate websites to expatriates around the world. The classified…
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The cultures of the US and Northern Europe operate on a timer. We expect to know our own futures and then catch up to them without a wrinkle. Changes in expectations are unnerving. Not so in much of the rest of the world. Here are a few examples: If you ask an airport employee in…
I have been pondering an article by Michael Martinez distributed by Knight Ridder Newspapers on January 1, 2006. The article described strategies for dealing with jet lag. My first thought upon reading it was the memory of standing on a balcony in Abu Dhabi at 3 a.m., with my entire family, wide awake and wondering…