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One of the biggest characteristics of the expatriate experience, and particularly of the repeat expatriate experience, is the necessity to make friends over and over again. You move, you get used to where you are, you meet…
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Culture Shock is the experience many of us have. How do you manage it successfully? How do you make it less "shocking"? Read More »
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I like the houses I see in the patches of countryside, between concrete shopping center strips, convenience stores, stark plots of razed dirt, and jumbled, dingy Post-War housing developments. They are the old homes, compact and white, dotted along perfectly combed fields of rice, the rows parted like hair, with mushroom-capped bonsai out front, their trunks gnarled like an old man’s fingers, and swooping roof eaves studded with curved tiles in China reds, silver grays, and royal blues … like the ruffled wings of some brightly colored bird roosting, before taking flight. Read More »
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