Insecurities, irritations, misunderstandings, doubts, frustrations, hurt feelings… just to name a few of the negative emotions that expats might experience when diving into new cultures and customs. Those emotions are based on first and superficial impressions. Cultures exist out of different layers and the difficulties we come across are usually related to concealed aspects of […]
Browsing the blog archives for October, 2012
29 Oct 12
A Look Behind the Scenes of Foreign Cultures
21 Oct 12
Why Study Abroad & Living Abroad are Worlds Apart
It´s a common mistake to presume that people with international experience, such as travel and study abroad, are made for expatriation. I love to travel, indulge myself into new cultures and learn foreign languages. Hence I believed life abroad was cut out for me and I wouldn´t have many difficulties to adapt. Moreover, I had […]
15 Oct 12
How I (Don´t) Manage Switching Four Languages on a Daily Basis
For multilingual expats switching languages is daily business. While outsiders astonishingly enjoy our “show”, this linguistic performance is a pretty exhausting activity for our human brain. I have been asking myself one crucial question: Is it possible to speak multiple languages without mixing them up? It´s the biggest challenge I am facing at the moment […]
7 Oct 12
Notes on Living between Two Worlds
My apologies that I didn´t write the last couple of weeks. I promise I will do better in the future! I had a valid reason not to write though. I was visiting my family and friends in the Netherlands. It had been one and half year the last time I saw them. I had never […]
- Hi there! I´m Marleen and this is my safe haven on the Web. I´m Dutch but I live in Guadalajara, Mexico. Here I share my adventures of living in a foreign country. Hopefully it inspires you to develop your own Evolution Abroad.
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