This are my reflections on a topic that matters to all accompanying partners: finding a career or a purpose during their international journey. It is the first time I write about this and putting it all “onto screen” has a very liberating effect. (warning: this is a long […]
In her latest book Reverse Culture Shock, Hélène Rybol explains the complexity of feelings we experience when going back to our home country or a country we lived before, after having spent a considerable time living in other cultures. Hélène describes her repatriation to Europe after living four […]
Internationals (TCKs, ATCKs, expats, global nomads) are used to transition between cultures. They know about the values, beliefs and know about the rules the “do’s and don’ts”. Some receive “mixed social messages on how others perceive” them and how they are supposed to act, but this only happens […]
Last week I attended the Families in Global Transition (FIGT) 2016 conference in Amsterdam. It was the first time I attended this annual conference which, for the first time, took place outside the US. I am still processing all I experienced and trying to put it all together […]
Expat Blog which has been launched in 2005, provides information and advice to those living or wishing to live in the Netherlands. “The website was first launched as a directory of expatriates’ blogs all around the world. During 10 years of service, it has evolved into a real […]
Since we are living in a highly international environment, I am constantly fascinated by the different cultures, beliefs, traditions and even though I think that I “get it” most of the times, there are – now and then – details that I want to understand. So, there comes […]
Are you raising your children abroad? Are you trying (almost) everything to transmit your cultural heritage and your mothertongue? When our children are second – or third, fourth etc – generation of international children, transmitting cultural heritage and language becomes a real challenge. If your child is first […]
The southernmost canton of Switzerland is Ticino. It has 8 districts and borders the Canton of Uri (to the north), Valais (to the west), Graubünden (to the northeast) and Italy’s regions of Piedmont and Lombardy to the south (and it has a small Italian exclave, Campione d’Italia). In […]
