I have been in Korea for 16 months now as an English teacher. My mother is always paranoid. First, she freaked out when I told her I would be taking a bus BY MYSELF in the evening to Wal*Mart in Bucheon ( Read more... )

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I might be mistaken, but I believe we ex-pats check our email with a little more anticipation than do people who live in their native countries. Communication becomes precious when you live so far away from friends and family that you can't just pick up the phone and give them a call whenever you want to ( Read more... )

Boy, I'm glad I found this blog. I think as ex-pats we sometimes feel lonely and alone, and it even seems like the people we're most intimately involved with in our adopted countries are miles away. I'm an American from Alabama who has lived and taught English on three continents. But most of the last ten years have been spent in Hungary, a ( Read more... )

Lately I have been trying to decide what I want to do with my life in the future. A period in my career is slowly getting to an end and I am considering if I want to stay where I am (may be difficult, I'd probably need to find a new job), go back home (very bad for my career), go somewhere else for a short time, like a year or two (probably the ( Read more... )

Hi! I'm an American expat whose been in New Delhi for a long time. I'm engaged to an Indian and we're getting married soon ( Read more... )

My family is afraid for me to go to South Korea. They think that there's still a war going on. They think that North Korea is dangerous and that it would be bad for me to be so close to it. They also think that Koreans make only $1 a day and that I'm going to a 3rd world nation. I'm going to be teaching English. They think it's a dumb move ( Read more... )

Hi all, and thanks to Tinafizz for pointing me in the direction of this community ( Read more... )

right, i been in england for 5 years now...and i went back to the states last year in april and then in october after not being there for almost 2 years ( Read more... )