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Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet arrive in the Netherlands with a lot of baggage

November 17, 2014by expatlingo 33 Comments

Each holiday season abroad, I stumble across something new. In Zhuhai it was pole dancing at a company Christmas party, in Cambridge it was a family Panto show filled with […]

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Goodbye bow tie, hello mud pit: a seismic shift in nursery care

September 9, 2014by expatlingo 24 Comments

In Hong Kong, this is how my son dressed to attend nursery: This was his mandatory uniform for non-gym days. On gym days he wore shorts that reached his arm […]

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Young Americans Abroad

May 23, 2014by expatlingo 43 Comments

When I was seven, I lived at The Center of the Universe as a Mormon child in the American West. I lived in Taylorsville, Utah. We rode our bikes to […]

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8 slices of America

July 11, 2013by expatlingo 24 Comments

1. Big lawns and kind-hearted eccentrics. Lawns, lawns, soft, runaround-in-bare-feet lawns. Lawns only made better by the addition of purple-bearded “Bubble Man,” an enigmatic staple of Seattle’s Carkeek Park. 2. […]

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The chameleon-like accent of the expat child

May 28, 2012by expatlingo 20 Comments

The accent shift has already begun its swing. Three years ago, within weeks of starting nursery in the UK, my expat kid was already speaking like an “English” girl, in […]

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