Hi Everyone, I hope you enjoyed a wonderful fun-filled weekend! Here are some expat links I have tweeted recently, that might interest you...
Registration Now Open For FIGT (Families in Global Transition) Conference, March 2012, Washington
http://www.figt.org/
Expat Entrepreneur Interview:
Expat Life Coach John Falchetto talks to Mara Vaughan (Egypt)
http://bit.ly/slgfUc
Expat Life: What’s a Nice Protestant Girl Doing in this Place?
http://bit.ly/vEYSUL
How Air Pollution Impacts Expat Kids
http://bit.ly/tTLl9i
Feeling Negative Abroad?
Read Our Expat Women October Confession
http://bit.ly/ohAty9
British Expats Refusing To Go Home:
15% Call Off Repatriation Plans
http://bit.ly/t0AUwp
Strategies for a UN Job Search (Part 2):
Research the Duty Stations (Passport Career Blog)
http://bit.ly/rVKunE
Luxury Clinic Sued After Australian Expat Left Blinded in One Eye (Moscow Times)
http://bit.ly/se8VTM
Can You Relate To This 1955 Philip Larkin Poem Title?
"The Importance of Being Elsewhere"
http://bit.ly/uim9nw
British Expat Sets Up A Theater Studio In Moscow (Video)
http://bit.ly/u8ZjfR
Plus, a quote that I liked this past week:
"If you're OK out of your comfort zone... you're not out of your comfort zone." by @lesmckeown (thanks @JohnFalchetto for sharing)
And finally, news from @LonelyPlanet's Twitter feed:
"Iceland is the top country destination as voted by Lonely Planet travellers for 2012!"
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
Missed Some Great Expat Twitter Links? (October 30-31 edition)
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Expat Women Home Page September 2011
Hi Everyone, I hope you have been enjoying a fabulous week! Please take a few minutes to read, enjoy, share and tweet about our new September home page features below. Thanks so very much, Andrea.
Success Story
Lisa Rutledge and Rachel Ogg
Co-Founders and Directors, KiwiOz Nannies
In 2000, New Zealanders Lisa Rutledge and Rachel Ogg conquered their entrepreneurial fears and resolved to join forces to start their own childcare business. The pair headed to London in 2001, and, inspired by the market they saw for a young, friendly company to place Australasian nannies in the United Kingdom, they founded KiwiOz Nannies. In 2011, with combined global turnover approaching US$1 million, Lisa co-runs the business from Auckland and Rachel from Sydney...
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Business Idea
The Pajama Company
Ellie Badanes
Running a business that she loves, being able to wear her pajamas all day "for research", and having a portable career that she can take anywhere – this is the tale of how American Ellie Badanes reinvented herself from retail buyer to online entrepreneur, after accompanying her spouse on expat stints in Copenhagen, Denmark; and London, United Kingdom...
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Healthy Living Abroad
How to Beat the Expat End-of-Summer Blues
Dhyan Summers, MA, Licensed Psychotherapist
For many expats, August/September is a particularly poignant and difficult time, as we are frequently returning from time spent in our home countries with family and close friends. When we return to our host country, it is not uncommon to find ourselves feeling depressed, lonely and a little out of sorts. Here are six tips for regaining equilibrium and moving from end-of-summer depression to full engagement with our lives abroad...
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Expat Confession
No Money Left
Extract from Expat Women: Confessions
In a few months' time, my partner and I will be returning to home base. We have enjoyed postings in Madrid, Berlin, Santiago and now Cairo. We have indulged in amazing holidays, eaten at spectacular restaurants and basically had a lifestyle that was second to none. The problem now is that this upcoming move home has made us realize we have no more than two months' salary saved in our joint bank account...
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Job And Careers
7 Tips For Juggling A Portable Career With Your Household Abroad
Rhiannon Davies
The list of portable career options could be almost endless – from dive instructor to photographer, writer to consultant, life coach, counsellor, teacher, estate agent, nanny, web developer, graphic designer, Internet entrepreneur, and more. But how can you juggle a portable career with your household abroad? Here are seven tips to help...
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Sunday, July 31, 2011
Expat Women August Home Page 2011
Hi Everyone, I hope you are enjoying (or enjoyed) a lovely weekend! Please take a few minutes to read, enjoy, share and tweet about our new August home page features below. Thanks so much and I wish you a wonderful week! Andrea
Success Story
Aurélie Gilles
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
Aurélie Gilles has defied many odds in her short lifetime. She is one of the 12 percent of Haitian youth who have completed high school, one of the 1.3 percent of Haitians who have completed a college degree, and she graduated from the Université de Pantheon-Sorbonne with honors whilst battling cancer. After completing a double master's degree and internship with the United Nations Development Programme, Aurélie now works with the Inter-American Development Bank to restructure Haiti and improve children's education...
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Business Idea
Olive Kebab and Café
Elena Karoumpi
When Greek expat Elena Karoumpi left her career in the hospitality industry in London and relocated to Bangkok, Thailand in 1997, she loved the city's wide array of international cuisine, but wished the city offered her favorite food – Greek. Four years later she introduced Olive Kebab and Café to Thailand's gourmet industry. Olive can now be found at three retail centers and two stand-alone restaurants around the city. Under the Olive brand, Elena and her business partner also operate a supermarket deli corner, and offer home delivery options, plus event catering...
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Author Interview
Big in China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues, and Becoming a Star in Beijing
Alan Paul
Suburban dad Alan Paul was supposed to be moving to China for his wife's once-in-a-lifetime adventure - she had been offered the job of Wall Street Journal China Bureau Chief. He ended up with an amazing adventure of his own, co-founding a Chinese blues band, becoming an award-winning columnist, creating a press identity as the Panda Dad (as opposed to the Tiger Mom), and already selling his memoir's film rights to Ivan Reitman and Tom Pollock's Montecito Pictures...
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Expat Confession
Raising Bilingual Children
Extract from Expat Women: Confessions
Our family is British and about to move to Brazil. One of my major concerns about our move is that none of us speak Portuguese. I worry about how our children will cope. Other people have told me that children are fast learners when it comes to language and it will all work out once I get there, but will it? I have no idea how to raise bilingual children and I question how much time I should invest in raising them bilingually, when they might forget it all when we leave...
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Expat Marriages
How To Help Your Marriage Thrive Instead Of (Barely) Survive While Living Abroad
Dhyan Summers MA, Licensed Psychotherapist
Sam and Susan fall into fairly typical patterns of "naming and blaming". Neither of them are taking responsibility for their own feelings and Needs. Instead, they are blaming their spouse. They are making demands instead of requests which only further alienates their partner. Jennifer and Richard, on the other hand, have learned Nonviolent Communication, or as I prefer to call it, the Compassionate Communication model of conflict resolution...
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Monday, July 18, 2011
Expat Women July 2011 Newsletter
Hi Everyone, I hope you are enjoying a fabulous July. If you missed our Expat Women newsletter last week, please take a few minutes to read, enjoy, share and tweet about it. Thanks so much and I wish you a wonderful day/evening! Andrea
Success Story
Hinda Gharbi
President - Asia Pacific, Schlumberger
Hinda Gharbi is President of Schlumberger's Asia Pacific operations. Based in Kuala Lumpur, Hinda directs the operations of Schlumberger's portfolio of service and product offerings in the Asia Pacific region. Hinda is originally from Tunisia. She joined Schlumberger in 1996 as a wireline field engineer in Nigeria after earning a Master's Degree in Signal Processing and an Engineering Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) in France...
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Business Idea
Words That Sell
Mel Henson
Once upon a time, Mel Henson lived in the hectic advertising world, employed as a full-time executive with leading London advertising agencies. But that all changed when Mel become a stay-at-home mother, retrained as a reflexologist, and moved to Luxembourg with her family. Unexpectedly, Mel later found herself working as a feature writer for a magazine in Luxembourg. This experience led her to start her copywriting business back in the UK, and to now launch her first book…
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Tips and Lessons for Entrepreneurs
Craving Success: A Startup Junkie's Path from Passion to Profits
Melody Biringer
If you are an expat entrepreneur, or someone wishing they had a business idea good enough for them to be an expat entrepreneur, Melody Biringer's new book - chronicling her lessons learned from starting 20 companies - is exactly what the motivation doctor ordered...
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Expat Confession
My Job Was A Mistake
Extract from Expat Women: Confessions
I am a thirty something professional who came here to Switzerland as a trailing spouse. I took a job here but my job is not all that I dreamed it would be. It is quite junior compared to what I used to do, and the salary also reflects this. I have a difficult time with my manager, who is inconsistent and erratic with regards to her expectations of me. My colleagues see me as "the foreigner". I am bored and lonely at work and am thinking that taking my job was a mistake...
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Expat Mothers
Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child
Julia Simens
Never underestimate the power of a five-year-old. When it comes to brainpower, a five-year-old has you beat...This may just be one of the reasons that expat children have the ability to be so resilient in their ever-changing, globally nomadic lifestyle. But just how resilient are you raising your children to be?
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Winning Story
A Year of Magic, Mystery and Chaos
Gabrielle, a Brit in Cambodia
It's no longer stinky. It's aromatic. The broken up sidewalks and chaotic traffic are not an irritation. They're an amusement. Even the searing heat is no longer intolerable. It's a method of bonding with neighbours and friends as we sweat, mop our brows and laugh at one another. Things change. A year ago today, I didn't think they would. In fact, I wasn't anticipating anything – except, hopefully, an air-conditioned coffee shop around the next corner to temporarily remove me from my misery and an iced cappuccino to help drown my melancholy...
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Sunday, June 5, 2011
Expat Women June 2011 Home Page
Hi Everyone, I hope you are enjoying a fabulous start to your month! Please take a few minutes to read, enjoy, share and tweet about our new June home page features below. Thanks and enjoy your week! Andrea
Success Story
Barbara Le Marrec
Chief Retail Officer, Starbucks Coffee Japan
Barbara Le Marrec, chief retail officer of Starbucks Coffee Japan and a member of the Starbucks Coffee International Leadership Team leads Retail Operations, Operations Services, Store Development, Store Planning, and Food Service for Starbucks Coffee Japan. Her responsibilities include oversight of the day to day operations and support of 920...
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Business Idea
Alice in Cakeland
Rebecca Treherne
Following the birth of her son in 2008, Rebecca longed to start a creative business from home. Missing American sweets, cakes and desserts, she discovered this was a virtually untapped market in the Netherlands...
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Business Finances for Expat Women Entrepreneurs
Corporate Structures, Expat Taxes and Retirement Planning
David McKeegan
If you are a budding expat entrepreneur who has settled offshore permanently, establishing your business in your host country might be an appealing option. However, if you are planning on being abroad for just a few years - not forever - or you plan on living in multiple countries abroad, you may want to incorporate in your home country (depending on rules in your home country, of course)...
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Expat Confession
Homesick New Mother Abroad
Extract from Expat Women: Confessions
We have been living in South Korea for seven months. When we first arrived, I loved the thrill of it all. But now I hate it. We are living in a tiny apartment with no backyard or outside space and we all sleep in the same room. My son is cooped up inside unless we take a couple of forms of public transport to get to the local park. My husband works from home on occasion, and then I have the impossible task of keeping our sixteen-month-old son quiet and occupied...
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Money Matters
8 Tips for Controlling Your International Health Insurance Costs
Philip McCusker
It used to be that the two things you could be certain of in life were death and taxes. The third one should be increasing insurance premiums every year for your health care. Even globe-trotting executives who are fortunate enough to have their family's health care covered by their employer might face a bit of a shock...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Expat Women May 2011 Home Page & Newsletter
Hi Everyone! I hope you are enjoying a great start to your month! Please take a few minutes to read, enjoy, share and tweet about our new May home page features below. If you are subscribed to our Expat Women newsletters, you will also receive these via newsletter this week. Thanks and enjoy your day/evening! Andrea
Success Story
Shabnam Rezaei
Big Bad Boo Studios, Oznoz Entertainment, and Persian Mirror
Shabnam speaks five languages, is the recipient of Canada's Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award, is the co-founder of both Big Bad Boo Studios (which produces multicultural content for kids) and Oznoz Entertainment (which distributes the content), as well as the creator of PersianMirror.com (an incredibly successful online magazine about Iranian culture)...
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Business Idea
Elana Jade Salon
Elana Schmid
Aspiring to see more of the world, aesthetician and personal trainer Elana Schmid sold her well-established Australia-based beauty business, Elana Jade Essential Beauty, in 2008 and moved to Japan. Two years later, Elana's passion for personal health and wellness led her to re-create Elana Jade, this time as an organic beauty salon in Tokyo...
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Money Matters
7 Financial Tips to Help Expatriates Prepare for When Danger and Disaster Strike Abroad
Lisa R. Mitchell
In Egypt during the civil unrest, the government shut down the Internet. Try conducting banking activities without phone or Internet service. How would you move money, pay bills and conduct other necessary banking transactions if you were stuck in the middle of political unrest or living in a country that experienced a natural disaster....
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Expat Confession
A Lonely Affair
Extract from Expat Women: Confessions
My husband's new regional role is very demanding and he travels a lot. Sadly, my loneliness has led to an affair with my neighbor. I feel guilty about what I am doing because I really do love my husband and want our relationship to get back on track. Ironically, I started the affair to ease my loneliness, but now I feel lonelier than ever...
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Moving Abroad
The Science of Anxiety in New Places
Catherine Transler
Coming to a new place generates mild feelings of oddity in the best case, anxiety for many of us, and for some people, it can induce a panic attack. When I arrived in the Netherlands after one year of living in a hilly and very crowded part of Paris, I was surprised by the immensity of the sky. It felt as if I had never noticed the sky before...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Expat Women April Newsletter Highlights
Hi Everyone, For those of you who missed (or did not get time to read) our Expat Women April newsletter, we invite you to click on the highlights below to read our latest features. Many thanks! Andrea
Success Story: Karen Hastings: Cupcake
Business Idea: CAMENAE Group: Jill Walker and Brittany Callard
Expat Confession: Expat Friends Leaving: by our Expat Women Girlfriend
The STARS Come Out at FIGT: A Report from the Families in Global Transition (FIGT) Conference, held in Washington DC, March 17-19, 2011: by Apple Gidley
FAWCO Conference 2011: A Report from the FAWCO (Federation of American Women's Clubs Overseas) Conference in Marrakech, Morocco: 16 - 20 March 2011: by Andrea Martins
Winning Story: Making it Home: by Jenna (An American in Brazil)
"Moving back to Rio under much better circumstances was not the piece of cake I had expected. True, this time around, I didn’t have to worry about visas or finding housing on a pauper’s salary, didn’t have to count my change every morning and pass up air conditioned buses because their fare was too expensive... But suddenly, hassles I’d never contemplated took center stage. I was a newlywed in a foreign country. All my friends worked regular jobs and lived at least an hour’s commute away, making visiting difficult. People seemed flummoxed by the change from favela to high-rise, and many of my old acquaintances fell out of touch..."
Winning Member: The name of our Explorer Publishing mini-guide pack winner.
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Monday, April 4, 2011
Expat Women April Home Page
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| Jill Walker and Brittany Callard | |
Brittany Callard and Jill Walker had been living parallel lives across Europe and South East Asia for the last two decades when they decided to embark on a new project together: CAMENAE. With their collective design training and international business experience, Jill and Brittany have built CAMENAE into a successful luxury brand of Italian made leather handbags and accessories... | |
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| Expat Friends Leaving Expat Women Girlfriend |
My partner and I have been living as expats for the past six years. Unlike most of our expat friends, we are not on the 'expat treadmill' and do not have to move every two to three years because of our employer. However, many of our friends are now getting ready to be moved to another location and every time we catch up with them, a large part of the conversation revolves around their upcoming move and how unsettling it is. But I cannot help but think about those of us left behind. It is unsettling for us as well... |
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The STARS Come Out at FIGT | |||||
| A Report from the Families in Global Transition (FIGT) Conference, held in Washington DC, March 17-19, 2011 Apple Gidley | |||||
Two key words came out of the Families in Global Transition (FIGT) Conference in Washington DC last month. The first wasfocus. The second was STARS - Spouses Travelling and Relocating Successfully, as an alternative to the traditional and not always well-respected term, "trailing spouse". UK Telegraph blogger and long-time FIGT supporter, Apple Gidley, tells us more about what took place at this year's FIGT conference... | |||||
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
Expat Women March Home Page
Success Story
Making a bold move from Australia to China paid off for Bronwyn Bowery-Ireland, who was able to expand her modest coaching business into a million-dollar company: the International Coach Academy. Bronwyn leads this successful Shanghai-based organization which certifies and trains people all over the world to be professional coaches...
Business Idea
Pascale Bon Yin
Pascale Bon Yin's expat journey began almost twenty years ago, when she relocated first from France to Taiwan, then to mainland China. After a few moves within China, she now finds herself in Shanghai juggling her role as wife to Chinese filmmaker Yin DaWei, mother to adopted daughter Jiajia, and busy entrepreneur running the Frasia Golf Training Center...
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Evacuations
Sudden Departures: How They Impact Expat Families
Rebecca Grappo
As I watched the events in Egypt unfold, my thoughts were with the thousands of expat children and families who are/were living in Egypt as well as their Egyptian friends and playmates. Maybe others are thinking about the political implications of this open rebellion, but I am thinking about the many families who may be ordered to leave quickly to other safe havens...
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Living in a Global Village
How Do Expat Women Cope with Life Abroad?
Riana Schreuders-van den Bergh
When I first arrived in the Netherlands, I felt as if my life had come to an end. I had no job, no friends and no social support system. I missed my family back home terribly and had no idea who I was anymore. Joining up with other expat women did not seem to help me either - they all seemed so happy and in control of their lives, whereas I felt like...
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Expat Careers
How Breaking The Rules Can Help You In Your Job Search Abroad
Megan Fitzgerald
Breaking the rules in a job search is an interesting topic, particularly in today's ever-changing global marketplace... Often the rules that create frustration and stress us out the most are the ones that are either not based on fact, or there is at least significant evidence to indicate that the opposite of that belief could also be true...
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Expat Confession
Keeping My Relationship Alive
Expat Women Girlfriend
Recently, my girlfriends were talking about the decline in intimacy in their relationships with their husbands since both the arrival of their children and their transfer to Singapore. I feel the same. With my husband working long hours and traveling a lot, then coming home to three children who all want his attention...
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Sunday, February 6, 2011
Expat Women February 2011 Home Page
Success Story
Marie Brice
We all know how important rest and recreation are as expats. Yet we often underestimate The importance of the other two R's: rituals and routines. As an expat, you probably visibly gag at the thought of routines - after all, isn't that why you are where you are and not back at home...
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Expat Confession
Ever wondered why so many women seem to miss out on senior promotions and high visibility projects? Why is it that men outnumber women in executive positions by up to 10:1? What can we women do to command the respect and promotions that our male counterparts seem to secure more?
Maria Foley
Years ago, bloggers tended to write only for pleasure. However, the sophistication of many of today's blogs... has meant many bloggers are now trying to generate an income from their blog...
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Sunday, January 16, 2011
Expat Women January 2011 Home Page
Hi Everyone and Happy New Year! Now that you are probably back from any great holiday that you enjoyed over Christmas/New Year, please take a few minutes to read, share, tweet and be inspired by our Expat Women January features. Many, many thanks and we wish you a fabulous start to 2011! Andrea
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Success Story
Elaine Young
CEO & Co-Founder, Shama
Elaine Young, mother of three, is a savvy expat entrepreneur based in Hong Kong. In 2009, Elaine was named the Entrepreneur of the Year by the prestigious RBS Coutts and Financial Times, Women in Asia Awards, and in 2010 she successfully sold her multi-million dollar property business…
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Business Idea
'Chef in Berlin'
Jill DiGiovanni
When growing up near Niagara Falls, Jill DiGiovanni dreamt of being happily swept away. Her dream came true; first when she began cooking as a chef on the seas, and now, while running her own business as a chef in Berlin...
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Travel Writing
6 Tips to Make it Better
Sybil Baker
Maya Frost
In 2005, Mindfulness Trainer Maya Frost put her creative, "eyes-wide-open" strategies into action by selling everything in suburban America and moving abroad with her husband Tom and their four teenage daughters...
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Getting Help
Living Without a Net: Getting Help, Far From Home
Sean D Truman, PhD LP And Susan Bernstein
The experience of moving and living overseas is, as all expats know, a compelling and even seductive event... There are times, however, when our coping mechanisms break down, and it becomes difficult if not impossible to make the adjustments that are necessary to do well...
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Expat Confession
Finding The Right School
Expat Women Girlfriend
We are on the verge of moving to Lithuania and I was wondering if you could please give me some tips to help me choose the 'best fit' school for our 7 year old son. All of the school websites I have visited make each school look so picture-perfect, but...
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Thank you very much and enjoy the rest of January, Andrea.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Expat Women: Best of 2010 Newsletter
Hi Everyone! First of all, Happy Holidays to each of you and thank you so much for your support in 2010. We hope that wherever you are and whatever you are doing this festive season that you are safe, healthy and creating some wonderful end-of-year memories with treasured friends and family members.
Second, for those of you who missed our Expat Women Best of 2010 Newsletter earlier this month (or if you are not subscribed to our main Expat Women newsletters), please find below some of our most popular features this year, as voted by you, our readers. Enjoy!
Success Story
Television Star, Producer and Entrepreneur Extraordinaire
Once upon a time, Brit Debbie Travis modeled with celebrity supermodel Gail Elliott. Today, long-term expat Debbie Travis is a household name in Canada, famous for producing and hosting three successful lifestyle television series that now show worldwide...
| Read more... If you are not a member of our main site, ExpatWomen.com, please join today to support us (and receive a link to download our free Expat Women e-book "Winning Stories"). This will also mean that future Expat Women newsletters will be delivered directly to your inbox. Thanks Everyone and all the very best for 2011! See you again in mid-January. :-) |
Monday, December 13, 2010
Expat Women December Newsletter Highlights
Hi Everyone, For those of you who missed our Expat Women December 2010 members' newsletter last week, or did not get time to read the new features, please find below the highlights and we encourage you to click on a few for a great read!
(If you are a member and did not receive your newsletter, please email us here, thanks)
Success Story: Karen van der Zee, Romance Novelist;
Business Idea: Janet Dorey, emBoxed;
Expat Needs: The Pyramid of Expat Needs, by Elizabeth Abbot;
Student Campus Visits: 10 Most Important Things to Look for in the Campus Visit, by Rebecca Grappo;
Expat Confession: Local Poverty, by our Expat Women Girlfriend;
BlogWorld2010: 12 Insights from the World's Largest Social Media Convention, by Andrea Martins;
Currency Exchange: 4 Key Ways to Protect Yourself When Using A Currency Exchange Service, by Deborah Benn;
Winning Story: Black and White for Thanksgiving - The Mourning After; and
Winning Member: The name of our Explorer Publishing mini-guide pack winner.
If you are not a member of our main site, ExpatWomen.com, please join today to support us (and receive a link to download our free Expat Women e-book "Winning Stories"). This will also mean that next month your newsletter will be delivered directly to your inbox.
Thanks Everyone! And look out for our "Best of 2010" newsletter later this week...
Andrea
