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my life italianDoes leaving your former life to live in paradise really need much explanation? I had a dream to live in Italy. After four years of teaching and almost as many summers traveling, I knew that something had to be done. I needed to cook every day with that f |
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Fumbling towards geekdomEclectic musings on my life as one half of a roving academic couple. Linguistics, physics, weight-lifting, computer programming, canned spaghetti on pizza -- it's all here. Plus bonus pictures of random Australian wildlife. |
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The Duchess of Earl30-something American living in France...... Thoughts on food, children, writing and feeling like a foreigner everywhere |
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Expat life
on Sep 6, 2005 in Expat This article gives one of the best descriptions of the struggle surrounding expat relationships that I've seen. I'd go even further, though, and say that even my friends here who are fluent English speakers wouldn't see me as the same...
Just like home
on Sep 11, 2005 in Expat France Life Wow. On my walk to work today I saw a Dodge Ram pickup truck. It was bright blue, with a white racing stripe or whatever the hell they call that thing, and a cab cover. It even had the square-ish...
Bloomin' Bugs...
on Apr 13, 2006 in UK ex-pat emigration immigrant emigrate Brit in the Boonies Expat New Zealand There are many things that attracted us to New Zealand. Up there in the top 10 was the lack of wildlife with an insatiable appetite for, well, me.Mozzies and houseflies? Childs play, and nothing that can’t be sorted with a few Robocans dotted about...
Birth of Broccoli
on Apr 26, 2006 in UK ex-pat emigration immigrant emigrate Brit in the Boonies Expat New Zealand Do you remember the day your parents sat you down for that most embarrassing of chats? Where do babies come from? The birds and the bees? Storks and gooseberry bushes?Not just one embarrassed child fidgeting at the table, but three uncomfortable peop...
How Hot is Your House?
on May 3, 2006 in UK ex-pat emigration immigrant emigrate Brit in the Boonies Expat New Zealand Having lived in a few Kiwi homes I’ve come up with a new concept for a reality television programme. It’s called “How Hot is your House?”.Instead of two super-sterile Kiwi’s armed with dusters and Mr Muscle charging round your home humiliat...