Many families start a new routine, a new school, a new language… End of August and beginning of September means a new beginning for many families and children in the northern hemisphere. Many internationals arrive during the holidays, some only a few days before school starts and it can be quite disorienting for the family […]
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Dutch anecdotes
by Genoveva Geppaart You might think that in order to experience other cultures and languages, you have to live in another country. Usually this is true, but sometimes you can even experience a different culture or language in your home country. The following anecdotes show this. Greetings I never lived abroad but via ACCESS I […]
Continue readingQuand on devient femme d’expat…
J’ai décidé d’écrire ceci après avoir lu l’article Je suis devenue femme d’expat et j’ai perdu ma liberté dans Le Monde. On trouve pas mal de témoignages par des femmes qui ont suivi leurs partenaires / maris à l’étranger (par exemple sur le site FemmeExpat), mais ce qui me frappe à chaque fois que je lis ces […]
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Kibbeh, Kabab and Kunafa, Oh My.
by Tone Delin Indrelid from www.theothertrail.me and blogger at www.theturbantimes.com and www.carrythefuture.org “My wife thinks you don’t like her food,” he said. “You’re not supposed to return the plate empty!” Tone Delin Indrelid recalls how being corrected on a social blunder in Damascus turned into a wonderful relationship of exchanging food and learning about others through food. It took me some […]
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About household and garden workers in Morocco
by Stephanie H Meade from In Culture Parent One of the things I have gotten wrong repeatedly in Morocco is the proper treatment of household and garden workers. I didn’t realize it, but I was inadvertently starving them. The first time a woman came to clean for us, she brought her mother. We had only arrived a […]
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