Expat Women June Home Page

Hi Everyone, We have uploaded our June Home Page features a little early, as June 1 falls over the weekend. Here is a quick summary:

Success Story: Anna Catalano
In 2001, Fortune Magazine crowned Anna Catalano as one of the most powerful women in international business. At the time, she was in London serving as a Group Vice President, Marketing, for BP. These days, Anna serves on several high-profile Boards, juggling Board duties for a global insurance broker, a consumer products company (whose main products are condoms and footcare/footware products), a chemical company, a finance company, a biotechnology company and a diabetes foundation. Anna is amazing.

Business Idea: Fiat 500 Touring Club
We talk to Brit Sophie Bye about her innovative business idea to set up a touring club in Italy, with a fleet of vintage 1950’s and 1960’s Fiat 500 cars. We ask Sophie her Top Five pieces of advice for expats setting up a business abroad.

Expat Confession: My Trailing Man
One of our Expat Women Girlfriends answers this confession:

"I moved to Europe 14 months ago for my career. I was offered a once-in-a-lifetime job and my partner agreed that it was just too good for me to refuse, so he happily supported our move and came as my ‘trailing spouse’. Before I accepted the assignment, we talked long and hard about what options there might be for my partner here, given that he enjoyed his field of work and derived a great deal of satisfaction from it.

Having worked for 20 years already, he assured me that whilst he would possibly seek out work opportunities upon arrival, he saw this as the perfect opportunity for him to take some time out of the rat race and explore his interests of golf, photography and medieval castles.

The problem is, he seems to have exhausted his interests in non-work pursuits and now keeps complaining to me that he hates it here because he is “a nobody”. I confess that I do not fully appreciate what he is going through… all I know is that I need to do something. Help."

Overcoming Conflict... Especially When Moving Abroad
Moving house is certainly a stressful life-experience, but when coupled with moving country too, it really does take some beating. Stress can cause tension and disagreement, particularly between you and your partner, as you plan and execute your plans to relocate. Thanks go to Rebecca Wells for contributing this article, in which she share six simple coaching strategies for you.

Featured Book: A Career In Your Suitcase
We talk to Jo Parfitt about the third edition of her must-have portable career guide. This is the one that we did the book review for recently for The Telegraph UK. We are Jo Parfitt fans anyway, but this book is fabulous: it is jam-packed with so much useful information and it really does prove why she is an expert in the field of developing your own portable career.

We will have a few more new features in our upcoming June newsletter. If you do not already receive our newsletters, please support us by signing up today (you will also receive our free E-Book: Winning Stories). We will be sending our June newsletter out early next week.

Thanks and have a fantastic weekend!

$10,000 Competitions

If you an Australian or New Zealand resident, here are two fantastic competitions that have come across our desk in the last 24 hours...

Lonely Planet and Expedia (together with a few other companies) have teamed up to offer a Gourmet Adventure for two to San Francisco, valued at AU$10,000. They are looking for the best on-the-road food and wine experiences, each 25 words or less. (Australian and New Zealand residents only.) The competition starts 19 May 2008 and ends 30 June 2008. For more details, Click Here.

Club Med are also running a $10,000 competition. First prize is a 7-night all-inclusive holiday for two people at a Club Med Ski Resort in Europe, including airfares to Paris with Air France, ski passes, ski lessons with highly-qualified instructors, three gourmet meals per day, open bar and snacking, plus nightly entertainment. Click Here to find out more. (Their Terms and Conditions link did not work, but we are guessing it is for Australians and New Zealanders also, as it seems to be mentioned on Club Med Australia's site only.) The winner will be announced 20 June 2008.

Disclaimer: For the record, we are not receiving anything from these featured companies... although we wish we were. ;-)

10 Favourite Networking Questions

If you have ever been unsure what to say in a networking situation, then Joe Gregory's My 10 Favourite Business Networking Questions article is for you.

We read Joe's article earlier this month in his Lean Marketing Champions newsletter. We thought his advice was so simple, yet so useful, that we have now put his article on our Expat Women main site (thanks Joe, for giving us your permission) and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

Expat Women in Pretoria, South Africa?

Hi Everyone, we received a plea for help this week from Chrisna Groenewald. She is looking for any expat women living in Pretoria, South Africa who might be able to help by volunteering to teach life skills to destitute mothers.

Chrisna works for SA Cares For Life, a Public Benefit Organization with the vision of changing the destiny of children. If you are interested, please contact Chrisna. Thanks.

Third Culture Kid (TCK) 1st-Ever Teleclass with Ruth Van Reken

Brice Royer, the Founder and Admin Guy of various TCK Communities such as TCKid.com and the TCK Facebook group, has asked us to invite you to an upcoming special event for Third Culture Kids (TCKs). Here is some of the official text:

"Are you a "Third Culture Kid" or adult? Are you a parent, family member or teacher and feel like you want to learn more about this Third Culture way of life? Just about every TCK we talk to has occasional questions and some frustration when it comes to belonging, their relationships, and the Third Culture way of life.

What do you think Ruth Van Reken, co-author of Third Culture Kids: The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds, and Paulette Bethel, an international transition coach, have discovered over their careers serving expatriate communities through various forms of trainings, on-site workshops, and writing, that can help you? Plenty.

In this teleclass, you will learn:
1. How do I sort out who I am and where I belong when I can't get past the feeling of belonging "everywhere and nowhere?"
2. How can I make and maintain friendships with non-TCKs and TCKs?
3. How do I deal with the grief I still feel from long ago losses of country and friends?
4. How do I stop restlessness, and the cycles of separation and loss I continue to create for myself because I can't seem to stay in one place more than 2-3 years?
5. How do I learn to recognize and develop fully the gifts I received from this TCK experience?
...and there is more on the site.

This is an exciting event because it's the first teleclass held for TCKs. It has never been done before. You can ask Ruth and Paulette your questions live by email or on the phone. It's like a conference but without any travel or conference fees -- you can listen to it online or on the phone. And it's completely free. You can get all the details about this teleclass (and a list of some of the questions they are going to be answering) here. Hurry, spaces are filling fast. Date: Soon!"

To read ExpatWomen.com's 2007 interview with Ruth Van Reken, please Click Here.

To read the ExpatWomen.com TCK Expat Confession featured this month, please Click Here.

Want To Write As A Freelancer?

In Jo Parfitt's latest Monthly Inspirer newsletter, she included this very interesting link to Suite 101, which appears to be a great site for anyone wanting to write - and get paid for it!

Here is an overview of the site:

"Suite101.com's door is open to the curious novice looking for a "101" intro to any of our 400 topics, but it's also a meeting place for 7 million readers and 500,000 members each month to ask 101 burning questions of the day.

With 12 years online, over 100,000 articles and 1,000 professional, paid contract writers, Suite101.com is dedicated to delivering quality expertise and writing increasingly rare in the online world.

Suite101.com Media Inc. is a private Canadian company based in Vancouver, British Columbia with an office in Berlin. It has been a successful consumer internet operation for over 10 years and has an international full-time staff of 14. "

If you have got a burning desire to write and/or you are looking to start a more portable career, you might like to click here to find out how you too could become a Suite 101 Freelancer.

The Telegraph: Expat Networking Article & Portable Career Book Review

Anyone interested in reading the Expat Networking article A Little Help From My Friends and/or the book review for the newly-released third edition of A Career In Your Suitcase that The Telegraph online (UK) published for me on the same day as the book review for Get Ahead By Going Abroad (blogged about in a previous post), please just click on the links above.

In terms of the date, I could swear black and blue that only one of these was on their site until earlier today when magically, all three appeared - dated 14 May. But I suppose there is nothing wrong with a touch of magic each day... is there?

Enjoy your day! Andrea

Help Wanted: Got An Interactive Idea?

Earlier this year we removed the Forums from our site (mainly due to the high frequency of spammers and associated maintenance).

We said at the time that we would look out for alternative, more manageable ideas, to continue the vision of facilitating an online community for expat women.

Help Wanted: The problem so far is that we have not found any other great ideas. Do you have any?

If you have seen a site that offers a great interactive feature that we could use for our intended purpose, please drop us a line as soon as you can. We are still looking for ideas and maybe you might just hold the key... Thanks.

Have You Helped Robin Pascoe Yet?

Hi Everyone, this is just a quick post to kindly request that if you have not already completed the Family Matters! Survey of the iconic Robin Pascoe, please consider giving 30 minutes of your time to a woman who has done so much over the years to help, educate, inspire and connect expats all over the globe.

When we announced this survey in a previous post in February, Robin was hoping for 250-300 responses from all of her sources. The great news is that she has been overwhelmed now with 435 (perhaps a testimony to how well she is regarded around the world). But let's help Robin get to 500, because don't you think 500 would be much more powerful when she is presenting her results to corporates and academics than 435?

If you have already done the survey, could you possibly help out by forwarding Robin's survey link to friends, partners, family members (aged 14 and over) and to your local expat associations? I know Robin would truly appreciate it. Thanks Everyone!

Whoever Told You Mañana Means Tomorrow? Living In The Dominican Republic

Congratulations Ginnie Bedggood! Ginnie wrote to us this week to tell us that she followed our link in a previous post and has now successfully had her Dominican Republic expat experience, entitled Whoever Told You Mañana Means Tomorrow? published in the May/June 2008 edition of Belgium's great (A)WAY Magazine.

Thanks again go to (A)WAY's Editor, Elena Bucciero, who also kindly published Jill's and my experience, Double Vision in Mexico, in their January/February 2008 edition. Regards, Andrea.

The Power Of Working Abroad

If you need any affirmation that working abroad can help your career, look no further than Stacie Nevadomski Berdan and C. Perry Yeatman's book, Get Ahead By Going Abroad: A Woman’s Guide To Fast-Track Career Success.

We featured an interview with the book's authors last month and I was so impressed with the book that I wrote a review for The Telegraph (one of the biggest news players in the UK), which they kindly published a couple of days ago. (Thanks Gill.) If you are keen, you can check out the review here.

Have a wonderful weekend! Andrea.

Expat Parent in Thailand?

Hi Everyone, I just visited the Expat Blog website and this Forum post (featured via a link on their home page) caught my eye:

"I work for a consulting firm and we are currently studying international schools in Thailand. We are trying to get in touch with expat parents... [to] help us by filling in a brief 15 minute survey. We will compensate you with a $25 American Express gift certificate (given that you meet our target demographic screen). I... appreciate everyone's help with this... Many thanks."

I cannot vouch for the person or the survey, but the link page appears legitimate. If you can help, you might like to check it out.

Best wishes, Andrea.

PS. To visit our Expat Women Blogs, please click here.

2008 GMAC Global Relocation Trends Survey Results

We received a Press Release yesterday from GMAC Global Relocation Services announcing that this year's annual survey report has now been released. The well-respected annual GMAC report has been quoted in many articles and forums since its inception in 1993.

We even quoted last year's report in two of our articles last year for the ERC (Employee Relocation Council)'s Mobility Magazine: Expat Networking: Helping You Improve The Success of Expat Assignments; and From Chennai to Shanghai: Expat Executive Women Working in Asia.

Here is some of the info of interest from yesterday's press release:

"Now in its 13th year, the annual Global Relocation Trends Survey has become the definitive study of companies’ employee-relocation practices, policies and projections. As it does each year, the newly released survey paints a comprehensive picture of evolving trends and emerging issues facing companies of all sizes that rely on an international workforce. For information on how to receive the full survey [click here]."

"The company will be presenting key findings of the 2008 Global Relocation Trends Survey on May 29 – 30 during a complimentary webinar designed to provide a comparative analysis of the key global mobility issues facing today’s business world. The interactive webinar presentation, open to the first 100 registrants, is available in the following regions:
The Americas: Thursday, May 29th at 9 am (CDT)
Europe, Middle East & Africa: Thursday, May 29th at 3 pm (BST)
Asia Pacific: Friday, May 30th at 10 am (SGT)
To register for the webinar [directly with GMAC, please click here]."

Whether you are interested in the GMAC survey for work or for pleasure, you might enjoy reading this year's report.

Samantha's Expat Tale

Some of you might remember that earlier this year, we blogged "Are you an Aussie Expat abroad?" - which was a call from a major newspaper for expats to feature in their Expat Tales section.

Well, Samantha Honey, the author of this month's ExpatWomen.com feature: Feng Shui Your Way To Relocation Success, wrote to us a few days ago to let us know that she saw that blog post and contacted the newspaper directly. The result was Samantha's very own Expat Tale this month! Congratulations Samantha (in Qatar).

Best Food In China Blog

If you are an expat in Shanghai or Beijing, you might be interested in the Best Food In China Blog link that was sent to us today by this blog's founder, Simon Pan (to whom we have no personal connection).

We had a quick look at his site... which he described in his email as a rare site that gives professional English food reviews about food in China to help expatriates and travelers order local food... and the reviews look quite useful.

You just need to remember to click on the title of each blog entry that you are interested in, so the full review displays correctly. Enjoy!

PS. If you are looking for more links for China, please visit our ExpatWomen.com China links page. :-)

Want To Speak At The FIGT Conference?

Dear Talented Women, If you think you've got what it takes to speak at next year's Families In Global Transition (FIGT) Conference (and I know many of you do), here is the newly-released link for downloading a submission proposal for 2009.

The conference will be held in Houston, Texas, March 5-7, 2009. I went last year with Jill. It's full of really friendly people - who would make a great audience for any interesting and informative presentation that you might like to propose. I encourage you to put your thinking caps on and take advantage of this great opportunity.

Best wishes, Andrea.

How Are Your Leadership Skills?

If you are someone who "influences outcomes and inspires others", I highly recommend that you check out LeadStar's website and/or sign up to their mailing list, because every email that I get from this company seems to ooze motivation and/or just darn good advice.

Here's some background on LeadStar:

"Lead Star was founded in 2004 by Angie Morgan and Courtney Lynch, best-selling authors of the business book Leading from the Front (McGraw-Hill), who made a commitment to provide practical, relevant, and inspiring ways to grow and develop leaders. Lead Star teaches leadership based on Angie's and Courtney's experiences as Marine Corps officers, private sector professionals, and entrepreneurs."

"Through Lead Star, Angie and Courtney have shared their leadership message with more than 50,000 professionals worldwide. These include employees, managers, and senior executives in Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, law firms, and educational institutions. Lead Star's numerous clients include Wal-Mart, Dell, FedEx, Merrill Lynch, Charles Schwab, Cisco Systems, Baylor College of Medicine, the National Association of Legal Professionals, and the Network of Executive Women. Lead Star's empowering message resonates with men and women everywhere."

"The firm's leadership expertise has been highlighted by FOX News, CNBC, and CNN. Angie and Courtney's efforts to spark a national dialogue on the topic of women and leadership have been noted in publications ranging from BusinessWeek to the Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, Inc., and The New York Times."

...Not a bad effort for the wife of an active-duty Marine and mother to a very active toddler (read more about Angie Morgan) or the mother of twin toddlers, the primary caregiver of her 95-year-old grandmother and the wife of a firefighter (read more about Courtney Lynch). Congrats Angie & Courtney.

I hope you enjoy the site! Andrea

Expat Women May Newsletter

Hello Everyone, We have just finished sending out our May Newsletter, packed with lots of great interviews and articles to read.

In addition to the May features listed in our previous post, our Newsletter includes Ali Wallace's article Shop Like a Parisian, showcases Saskia's Winning Story: Integration and names the lucky winner of the Explorer Books Mini-Guides.

As a special gift to our Members, we also included a link to our first-ever E-Book: Expat Women Winning Stories, February 2007 (our first winner, as we only launched in January 2007) to May 2008.

If you are not yet a Member, but would like to join and get our monthly dose of inspiration, plus your free E-Book, please Click Here - it's fast and it's free.

Thanks Everyone and enjoy your weekend!

WIN Conference - Sitges, Barcelona, Spain. Registration Now Open

Are you interested in joining hundreds of outstanding women in Sitges, Barcelona, Spain for the W.I.N. Global Leadership Forum this year? If yes, then you are in luck -registration opened today, May 1.

W.I.N. stands for Women's International Networking. The annual conference for women is the brainchild of the ever-inspiring Norwegian, Kristin Engvig, who we featured as a Success Story on our site in 2007. This single mum seems to never run out of energy!

Last year, I travelled from Australia to Norway to attend the W.I.N. Forum in Oslo. It was a wonderful experience. Rooms full of women wanting to share, learn, inspire others and be inspired. I highly recommend it - especially if you are based in Europe and it's just a hop-skip-and-a-jump.

Dates: (17) 18 - 20 (21) September 2008
Venue: Hotel Melia, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain

If you would like to find out more about what went on last year, I invite you to read our W.I.N. 2007 Reports - Part One and Part Two.

If you would like to find out more about the upcoming 2008 W.I.N. Forum, please click here to go directly to the official W.I.N. site.

Regards, Andrea.

Expat Women - May Features Now Online

Hi Everyone! We uploaded our new May features onto our home page and elsewhere on our site earlier today. Here's a quick run-down:

Success Story: Lyndall Sachs
Lyndall is currently Australia's Ambassador to Lebanon. She has led a fascinating life and we ask her about working as an Ambassador, working previously for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and about her experiences abroad.

Studying Abroad: Settling-In To An International School
No One Said It Would Be Easy
Special thanks go to Jenny Early, who helped us out recently as an intern, while on her gap year in the UK, for sharing with us her experiences of moving to an international school in The Netherlands for two years.

Feng Shui Your Way To Relocation Success
Samantha Honey kindly contributed an article for us on how to follow Feng Shui principles abroad - to cleanse and balance your new environment.

Adult TCKs (Third Culture Kids)
Our Expat Confession this month was written by one of our Expat Women Girlfriends (a trained psychologist), myself and TCK guru, Ruth Van Reken. If you are a TCK and you wonder if you can ever really 'fit in', take a read.

Courage To Fly
Robin Fay McNair talks about the 'fear of flying' - discussing 'trigger words' and giving us some great tips to help us gain more courage to fly.

Planet Germany
Jenny Early talks to Cathy Dobson about her experience trying to adapt to the local German culture, after a decade of living in Germany. (A very witty and entertaining book, by the way.)

And... if you want more... you will have to wait for our newsletter at the end of the week. Best wishes for May!

Andrea

PS. For anyone who wonders why we are featuring two Australian Ambassadors in the space of three months, here's the answer...

Last year, I scoured the UK government website seeking women Ambassadors to approach for this Success Story feature. Not only were there very, very few women Ambassadors abroad for the UK at the time, but unfortunately, those that I wrote to all declined the invitation. This year, I wrote to four Australian women Ambassadors (hoping that at least one would say 'yes'), and three out of the four agreed to participate! So, Lyndall is number two being showcased and later in the year, true to my word to the third generous Ambassador who participated, we will showcase the lucky third. :-)

UK Expats Thinking Of Going Home?

If you are a Brit living abroad who is thinking about going home to the UK, then Angie Cox at Fever Media is looking for you:

"ITV1 are making the second series of 'No Place Like Home?' about British Ex-Pats who are considering moving back to the UK. We're keen to hear from Brits who are living abroad, but who are now thinking about returning permanently to Britain. Perhaps you miss your family and friends, maybe you are struggling with the language, or very simply you yearn for a bit of British culture. You'll be flown back to the UK and given the opportunity to 'test-run' the reality of living in the UK. We'll give you the information and experience to make an informed decision on whether to remain an expat or come home for good. If this sounds like you, or anyone you know, please contact Angie via email as soon as possible, or call 00 44 (0) 20 7428 5768. To watch segments from the first series please click here and then click on programmes in the menu. I look forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Angie Cox."

Angie said in her email to us today that they have 30 episodes to make. So if you are interested - go for it! :-)

Heard of Tomorrow People?

Last week, I came across an interesting site for the Tomorrow People Organization (TPO):

"Tomorrow People Organization is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping young people to become educated and ethical, globally aware professionals, committed to inflicting a positive change in the world. Our focus is on leadership and cross-cultural studies. By inspiring young people to develop new ideas and teaching them the skills necessary to put those ideas into action, we are creating new generations of responsible and successful global citizens - future leaders. "

"Tomorrow People Organization was founded in 2002 by a group of enthusiastic young people in Belgrade, Serbia and by now has grown into an internationally recognized organization with numerous respectful academic partners, references and academic programs held in dozen countries and 4 continents. In its academic programs, Tomorrow People Organization has hosted participants of more than 60 different nationalities..."

I see that they have a 3-day women's conference coming up at the end of next month. If anyone is in or close to Korea, or interested in attending, please click here to get more information from their site. In the meantime, here are the basics:

Women's Leadership Conference 2008:
25-27 May 2008, Busan, South Korea

280 Euros before 2 May (or 180 Euros for Student Observers)
320 Euros from 2 May onwards (or 220 Euros for Student Observers)

If anyone goes, please drop me a line afterwards to let me know more about the conference.

Thanks, Andrea.

Have You Joined InterNations?

If you have joined FaceBook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Naymz, WAYN and 2BalanceU (Go Heidi!) and you still have an appetite for more, the relatively new InterNations site might be right up your alley.

InterNations was started (I am told, in September 2007) by three Europeans: Christian Leifeld, Philipp von Plato and Malte Zeeck.

The site claims to be "the first international online Social Network exclusively for people living and working abroad". The idea is to build a network of trust, "where its members can interact with other internationally-minded individuals sharing the same situation abroad, similar interests, and needs. Members of InterNations can get and keep in touch with private or work-related friends and acquaintances on a global and local level and exchange trustworthy and relevant information on specific topics with each other".

It's an invitation-only network, but if you'd like an invitation, just click here and go for it!

5 Key Points For Writing A Book

If you have some ideas that you really want to get out into print, take a read of Jasmyne Boswell's article 5 Key Points For Writing A Book , which we published on our site today, to get you motivated.

As Jasmyne says, " Writing a book is similar to starting any project. It takes planning, preparation, focus, commitment, and most of all a passion for what you’re doing. If you implement all five points, the odds of flourishing are in your favor."

Thanks go to Jasmyne for her voluntary contribution.

World's Most Expensive Cities

Every so often, a survey comes out naming the world's most expensive cities, the world's best cities to live in etc. I just read an online news article on my local news site that was quoting ECA International's latest annual survey results, which surveyed 92 cities worldwide, in an effort to compare the cost of expatriate housing. Take a quick look to see how your city ranks in terms of the most expensive cities in the world to rent a three-bedroom apartment:

1. Hong Kong
2. Moscow
3. New York
4. Tokyo
5. The news site accidentally missed this one!
6. Mumbai
7. Seoul
8. Caracas
9. Singapore
10. Ho Chi Minh City
11. Paris
12. Shanghai
13. Dubai
14. Bogota
15. Istanbul
16. Beijing
17. St Petersburg
18. Lagos
19. Rome
20. Amsterdam

Career In Your Suitcase

Great news, the long-awaited third edition of Jo Parfitt's Career In Your Suitcase book is now out! Jo sent me the PDF today and I spent more than an hour scrolling through its 298 pages. (Aren't e-books just amazing... the fact that you can get access to that much information without needing to touch a hard-copy any more?)

In short, this book is truly like a bible for anyone wanting a portable career and I wish I had read it years ago when I started the song-and-dance-trailing-spouse-routine. It is jam-packed with so much advice, that I look forward to reading every single page, when time permits. Do not be surprised if we feature this book on our home page in the coming months. It fills a genuine need for so many women in our audience, and it's practical and inspiring to boot.

If you're in need of a portable career, or just needing a motivational lift, you can order/pre-order your copy from the following sources:

Bookshaker (E-Book, immediate version)
Amazon.com (Hard-copy version)
Amazon.co.uk (Hard-copy version)

Note: The release date on Amazon is only 4 May 2008, so this truly is 'hot off the press'!

Happy reading, Andrea.

Bloggers: Heard of Voki?

I saw something very, very cool on a blog tonight that I have never seen before: a Voki. What is a Voki? Basically, a speaking avatar that you can use on your blog for free!

The official Voki definition goes as follows: "Voki enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. You can customize your Voki to look like you or take on the identity of lots of other types of characters… animals, monsters, anime etc. Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone.Voki lives on your blog, social network profile and will soon be integrated in various instant messaging platforms. You will also be able to download it to most video supported phones. "Voki" is a combination of "vox", which is Latin for voice, and "Loki", which, is a prankster character in Norse Mythology."

Thanks go to our newest Expat Women Blog Directory member, Tamara of American Girls in Moscow, for introducing me to Voki. If you would like to see Voki(s) in action, check out Tamara's blog, as she features one for herself and one for each of her two beautiful daughters. :-)

Warmest regards, Andrea.

New Trailing Spouse?

If you are a new 'trailing spouse', or 'accompanying partner' as some prefer to be called, you may like to check out this super-useful guide that we stumbled across today on the web, written by the Family Liaison Office (FLO), US Department of State.

The guide is entitled Spouse and Partner Guide to the Foreign Service and it was only just published in February (which explains why we have not seen it before when surfing the FLO website).

Now, you might be neither American nor in a foreign service, but if you are new to the role of trailing spouse, there should be at least something in here that you can find useful, as the PDF document consists of 39 pages - sharing lots of useful advice and links.

Thanks go to the FLO for posting this information onto the 'open' internet, rather than onto just a 'closed' intranet site, so that expat women everywhere can benefit.

There Has Never Been A Better Time To Be An Expat

Robin Pascoe's article with this title was published last week in the Telegraph.co.uk. To read why Robin believes this, and what she thinks has/has not changed over the 20+ years that she has been covering the "global living beat", click here.

To read our interview last year with Robin about her book 'Raising Global Nomads', click here. To read our interview last year with Robin about her book 'Homeward Bound', click here.

Happy reading!

Living in the Olympic City?

Bustling Beijing, I have been told, offers countless new experiences for resident expats. Flicking through two review copies of books that arrived on my desk this week, Insider's Guide to Beijing 2008, by Immersion Guides, and a preview copy (that was distributed at the Beijing Expat Expo this week) of Beijing Explorer: The Complete Residents' Guide, by our friends at Explorer Publishing, who kindly donate our great monthly giveaway, I have to agree.

Is there anything this city does not have to offer? Maybe clean air is hard to come by, but I would hazard a guess that you could even find some clean air in Beijing if you needed it, via 'drop in oxygen bars' or something similar.

In short, if you are in Beijing, or moving to Beijing, I definitely give these books the thumbs up for helping you to make the most of your time in Beijing. From what I saw, there is just no way that you could discover all of the options presented in the books by yourself... or even through your local expat club... or even if you married a well-connected Beijing local. These books are a feast for the senses. Check them out if you are in, or moving to, Beijing. :-)

Warmest regards, Andrea.

Disclaimer: Expat authors and publishers sometimes like to send us review copies of their books. If we consider the books useful to expatriate women, we typically list the books on our ExpatWomen.com Country Books pages. We may also mention the books here in our blog and/or feature them in our newsletter. For the record, we are not paid for these mentions.

Repatriation: Going Home Is Not Easy

If you are a repatriate, you will know that going home is not an easy transition. In addition to the physical requirements of setting up a new home and settling children into new schools (if applicable), repatriation can stir up a pot-full of mixed emotions - especially if it was not your choice to return home.

Repats need to re-establish their support networks at 'home', adapt (read: usually downgrade) their lifestyle and habits, re-shape their language to try to fit back into the typically more domestic-centered mind-set of the people that they meet, accept career changes , re-mould their identity and more.

If you are a repatriate, you may be interested in two women that I talked to in this past week:

The first is Kirsten Terndrup Hammarkvist, the founder of The Repatriation Network of Denmark and the Coming Home Network. (Note: These sites are in Danish.) Kirsten lived in California, US, for 8 years, before returning 14 years ago to Denmark. She recounted to me the struggles that she went through, thinking at times "What was wrong with me?", which led her to follow her passion and set up a network for repatriates in Denmark.

Several years on, some media articles and even a TV feature in Denmark, and Kirsten now has 262 members on the network's mailing list, who not only identify with her vision, but want to connect. Hats off to Kirsten!

If you are Danish and would like to get involved, or if you are a repat elsewhere and would like to talk to Kirsten about her experience setting up a network for repatriates, please contact Kirsten here.

The second woman is Madeleine Dobson. Madeleine is a PhD student in the UK at Royal Holloway, University of London. She was an expat in Singapore when her family moved there in the mid-nineties. When her family moved back to the UK she became interested in what it is really like to repatriate and how people negotiate this and the challenges and opportunities it presents. To avoid simply focussing on the economic ‘lead’ migrant, she is looking for households including dependent children who might be willing to take part in her research.

Madeleine is primarily interested in UK citizens who have lived at some point in Singapore as expats. If you can help her with her research, please visit her website and/or email her via this address. Thanks.

If anyone else is doing similar repatriate research work and/or managing repatriation networks, feel free to drop me a line - I would love to hear what you are up to.

Thanks and best wishes, Andrea.

Expat Women April Newsletter

Warm greetings Everyone! We sent our April newsletter out earlier today. In addition to our home page features, the April newsletter also includes:

(1) Families In Global Transition (FIGT) Conference 2008 Highlights - thanks to Robin Pascoe;

(2) This month's Expat Women Confession - Job Restructure - talking about how to handle a shock decision such as a job restructure – especially when you have only recently expatriated;

(3) A plug for Robin Pascoe's (aka "The Expert Expat"'s) "Family Matters!" Survey - as mentioned previously on this blog. Please help Robin;

(4) This month's Winning Story - On Life, Being Busy and Moving On - written by Anita, an Indonesian in Scotland;

(5) An advertisement for a cool new site - My Week In. Take a look if you are in Paris, the Loire Valley, London or Edinburgh; and

(6) The announcement of our first winner of the fantastic Explorer Publishing book giveaway.

Important note: If you are an Expat Women Member and you have not received our April newsletter, please check your spam folder - as sometimes it can go straight to there. If it is not there either, just jump onto our online version and then drop us a line and we will investigate why you do not seem to be receiving it.

Thanks and enjoy your weekend!

Want To Get Our News Faster?

Hi Everyone, Just a quick post to let you know that you can now get our blog news faster, directly via email.

We have added the FeedBurner subscription box on the right-side of this blog, so please just add your email address and any day that we post a new entry, you should get it delivered to your inbox sometime in the following 24 hours. It is super simple.

If instead, you would prefer to subscribe in a reader, we have added those quick-links further down the right-side too.

Thanks and enjoy your day/evening!

Telling Tales Exhibition in Dubai

Friends, I do not normally use this blog to promote local expat-oriented events (because there are just too many, as you can imagine) but...

I just received word from our dear friends and supporters at Explorer Publishing that they are hosting a "photographic and oral history of Dubai through faces of the Emirati community" this week and that you are all invited. If you are interested and you are in Dubai, here are the details:

Telling Tales Exhibition
XVA Gallery, Bastakiya, Bur Dubai
Wednesday 2 April: 9am - 7pm
Thursday 3 April: 9am - 7pm
Friday 4 April: 10am - 5pm

For more information contact Shedan on 971 4 340 8805 Ext 201 or email shedan@explorerpublishing.com or click on this link.

Enjoy!

Andrea

Expat Women April Home Page Online

Hello Everyone, we hope you are enjoying a great start to your week! If you have not jumped onto our new home page yet for April, here are this month's main features:

Success Story: Stacie Nevadomski Berdan - a shining example of how successful you can be if you take the plunge and accept a work assignment abroad.

Featured Book: Get Ahead By Going Abroad - which Stacie co-authored with Perry Yeatman. We deliberately opted for the double-feature for Stacie in the same month, because honestly, their book is great - full of real-life examples, quotes and feedback from many women abroad - and it made sense to keep the two features together, rather than separate them into two different months, so that the interview responses complemented each other.

1st Special Feature: Women in Transition - contributed by Dhyan Summers MA, Licensed Psychotherapist - an American Expat Woman in India. If you are trying to cope with various changes in your life, you may find Dhyan's discussion about N.K. Schlossberg's "4 'S' System" for coping with transition to be just what you need.

2nd Special Feature: Special Needs Children... What To Know Before You Go - contributed by Rebecca Grappo, M.Ed, C.E.P. - an American Expat Woman in Oman. Rebecca is an International Educational Consultant who has worked with hundreds of globally-mobile families in both private practice and as the former Education and Youth officer for the U.S. Department of State. Her feature is a great read if you have special needs children and are about to move to a new expat location. If you know of someone else in this situation, please on-forward this article to them, as anyone faced with this challenge could benefit from Rebecca's advice.

Our newsletter this week will feature a few more things. If you have not signed up to receive a copy to your inbox, quick, do so here.

Thanks and happy April everyone!

Expat Infidelity Poll

Help... We moved our monthly Expat Women Poll from our Home Page to our Polls section this month, when ExpatWomen.com underwent it's March makeover. The problem now seems to be that the Poll is a bit too buried on the site and we need more responses.

Granted, some women might be scared to commit an answer to a question about infidelity... but given that our Poll is completely anonymous and no ExpatWomen tracking device whatsoever will find out who said what (we assure you), we hope you will click on this link and take the 5 seconds you need to click on your multiple-choice response to the following:

Question:

What is Your Experience with Infidelity Abroad?


Possible Answers:

• My Partner Has Had An Affair, But I Have Not
• My Partner Has Had An Affair, And I Have Too
• My Partner Has Not Had An Affair, But I Have
• I Suspect My Partner Has Had An Affair
• I Want To Have An Affair
• We Have Both Been 100% Faithful

Thanks in advance for your help!

Want to Win a Web Award?

If you have ever wondered how web experts would view your web site or blog, here is a great way to get some feedback and potentially receive some valuable recognition for your efforts...

The US-based Web Marketing Association has just announced it's 2008 call for entries to its annual WebAward Competition, with the deadline for entry being 31 May. You do not need to be a US-based company to enter. The entry costs US$195 (or US$99 for non-profits), but the sweeteners are:

(1) There are 96 (!) categories in which they typically announce several winners per category; and

(2) Every site entered receives rankings (and sometimes valuable judges' comments) across different selection criteria, so you can see just how you are doing and get some focus on how best to improve your site.

Last year, in our first year online, we entered ExpatWomen.com just to get some feedback from what we saw as 'real' web experts. We ended up winning (which they noted was primarily due to our content, rather than any super-interactive feature on our site) a Standard of Excellence award in our Online Community category.

This award was undeniably nice to show our sponsors and supporters, but more useful to us were the scores, rankings and two pages of extremely valuable feedback from their volunteer judges. That alone was well-worth the price of entry. (We will not be entering this year, but that is because we still have such great feedback to work on from last year.)

Now, in case you are wondering if they hand out awards to 'just anyone'... here is the list of the top 12 winners last year (note that Disney's name is mentioned twice), and here is the MyCoke site (aka another big name, Coca-Cola) that won last year in the Online Community category.

After approving the (exactly) 444 Expat Women Blogs on our site, I know that some of you have some really fabulous sites and blogs - so I hope some of you enter and win - then be sure to tell us, so we can showcase your winning blog here on our blog.

Good luck Everyone!
Andrea.

Are You An American Expat Lawyer?

Hi Everyone, This post is specifically for American Expat Lawyers, who might be able to help Amy Montemarano at the Drexel College of Law in the US:

"I am writing an article (and extending it into a book) on international legal careers and would like to interview (through email & telephone) ex-pats who were graduated from a U.S. law school and are now working in other countries. The article/book will feature "profiles" of how U.S. lawyers found their jobs working abroad. The intended audience is law students. The article will be placed in legal newspapers/magazines and will also be put on the website of Drexel University College of Law. The book will hopefully be published by the ABA (or similar legal organization) in its career division. I will run all final drafts of the interviews to confirm accuracy and make sure there is nothing confidential in what is said. This is being written in my professional capacity as Assistant Dean of Career & Professional Development at Drexel College of Law. Please contact me if you are interested in talking about your career. I anticipate gathering interviews from April through May 2008. Thank you."

If you can help Amy, please contact her directly via:

Amy Montemarano Esq.
Assistant Dean of Career & Professional Development
Drexel University College of Law
3320 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
(215) 571-4720
amymonte@drexel.edu
www.drexel.edu/law

Many thanks!

Expat Mentoring in BR Anchor News

Hi Everyone. Have you ever heard of BR Anchor Publishing? If you are a HR/Relocation Manager and you have not, then read on...

BR Anchor Publishing was started in the US in 1990 by Beverly Roman. Since that time, Beverly and her daughter Amy (who has recently assumed the company reins and moved the business to Florida) have built the company into a destination of choice for HR/Relocation Managers - in terms of expert advice and relocation resources customized for individual companies. Their newsletter database, for example, has over 7,000 subscribers. If you are interested, you can subscribe to their (now one-page-only) monthly newsletter via this page on their site.

This month's newsletter has just been sent out and I want to thank Amy and Beverly for publishing our Expat Mentoring article as the cover feature. If you are a HR/Relocation Manager and want to boost the success rate of your company’s expatriate assignments, take a quick read to see three simple ideas for you to help your expats link into the benefits of mentoring abroad.

Fancy Vietnam in June?

Hanoi, Vietnam, is the place to be this June if you would like to participate in the 2008 Global Summit of Women - nicknamed the "Davos for Women" because of "its focus on business and the calibre of women who participate".

The Forum is now in its 18th year. Last year, the Forum was held in Berlin, Germany. It hosted 1,000 participants from 95 countries, including 44 women government Ministers, as well as top women corporate, entrepreneurial and NGO leaders. You can see the video from last year here on the Globe Women website.

This year, the theme will be "Women and Asia: Driving The Global Economy". The program promises another fabulous array of VIP speakers, plus break-out sessions aligned as following:

• Leadership Development track;
• Entrepreneurial track;
• Micro-Enterprise track; and
• Issues track.

Dates are: Thursday 5 June - Saturday 7 June.

If you decide to go, please let me know, as I am going for the first time and would love to meet you there.

Best wishes, Andrea.

Note: On Wikipedia, "Davos" is explained as a municipality in the district of Prättigau/Davos, in Switzerland. It is described as famous for being the host to the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the annual meeting of global political and business elites, which is often referred to as simply Davos. To read more, click here.

Got an Expat Blog in Asia?

Hi Everyone, I talked today to the Founder and CEO of Expat-Advisory Services (EAS), Anthony Galloway, and to the Managing Editor for EAS, Naomi Robinson - both based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

The EAS web site, with the catch-phrase "The Insider's Guide to Asia" has been up for about four years, so if you are in (or have been in) Asia, you may have heard of the site. Currently, they cover Cambodia, South Korea, Vietnam and Laos. They have plans to expand to another three or four countries this year - so they are growing.

Anyway, Naomi kindly asked me to help promote their Blog in Asia competition. Basically, each month, the best blog post submitted to EAS will win US$100. At the end of the year, their "best Blogger" will be awarded US$1200. Now that would be a nice end-of-year bonus to travel somewhere exotic within the region!

To see more details about the competition, please Click Here. Good luck Expat Women in Asia Bloggers! :-)

Andrea

International Women's Day

On March 8 (and/or in the week prior or after), thousands of women around the world get together in some shape or form to celebrate International Women's Day (IWD).

According to this great United Nations (UN) link: "[IWD] is a day when women are recognized for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political. It is an occasion for looking back on past struggles and accomplishments, and more importantly, for looking ahead to the untapped potential and opportunities that await future generations of women."

Did you do anything for IWD? Go to a luncheon? Participate in an organized fun run? Get together with your girlfriends? Or watch some IWD videos on YouTube? :-)

This year, I had the pleasure of attending a breakfast function for my local women's network in Australia: the Sunshine Coast Business Women's Network (SCBWN). The guest speakers for the morning were Hariati and Serena - two of the first female pilots to fly for Royal Brunei Airlines.

Hariati and Serena were incredibly inspirational. These women grew up in an Islamic society, on an island (Brunei) of only around 300,000 people. They both spent their childhood dreaming of being a pilot, but given that women were never allowed to do that in Brunei, it would have been easy to let go of their dreams... but they never did. They studied the subjects that they hoped one day would help them be pilots and they never lost faith in their dreams.

In 1999, both Hariati and Serena saw the advertisement by Royal Brunei for one (yes, just one) female pilot cadetship. They told us at the breakfast of their overwhelming sense of joy that day - as they knew that their dreams and hard work had not been wasted - they knew that they finally had a chance to fly high in the skies. (For the record, the women did not compete against each other, as one of them did not apply until the following year, due to age restrictions.)

Hariati and Serena both overcome some amazing odds to achieve the success that they enjoy today. For that reason, I am trying to interview one of these wonderful women as a Success Story for ExpatWomen.com in an upcoming month. The women are keen - but I am just needing to navigate through some "company security barriers" first. Wish me luck.

In the meantime, here are three inspirational quotes that I scribbled down from their talk, so you can share a little in some of the mottos that these ladies live by:

• "Women who want to be as good as men, have no ambition" (Serena was given this quote on a coffee mug, which she still uses it every day)

• "Write your own history, shape your own future"

• "N o t h i n g is impossible - n e v e r give up on your dreams"

Happy International Women's Day for last Saturday! Andrea.

Other IWD links:
Aurora's IWD page (UK-based)
Wikipedia's IWD page

Expat Women March Newsletter - Now Online

A very warm hello to everyone on this beautiful day. Our March newsletter is now online here. We managed to send the newsletter to half of our Members today. The task will be finished tomorrow, for those who missed out today. Please bear with us. It takes a couple of hours to send to all of the newsletter groups, so occasionally we run out of time (or encounter technical hiccups) and the task then gets spread over two days. If you have not joined us yet, we invite you to sign up now, so you do not miss the next inspirational dose in April!

One feature in the newsletter that has not previously been mentioned on this blog is the Double Vision in Mexico article. This was an interview that Jill and I did last year with Elena Bucciero of (A)WAY magazine in Belgium, about living in Mexico. (A)WAY published the interview in their hard-copy magazine in January/February 2008, as part of their regular feature showcasing what it is like to live in different countries as expatriates. If you are moving to Mexico, or have just moved to Mexico, you may be interested in the article.

If you think you live in an interesting expat location and you would like Elena to consider interviewing you in the future, you can contact Elena via this online contact form (remembering to mark it for Elena's attention). Elena says: "The idea behind this 'interview-type' piece is to tell other expats what it is like living in various countries worldwide - to give them a 'flavour' of the lifestyle, people, food, culture, etc. as well as information about all the other things which are really important to expat families - education, healthcare, accommodation, cost of living, etc."

By the way, if you are in Belgium and you do not already subscribe, I encourage you to seek out the magazine at some point - it is very nice (they sent me a copy) - and 15,000 readers must be onto something, right? (I saw on their website that a two-year subscription costs 30 Euros.)

Have a wonderful weekend, Everyone! Andrea

Thank You Expat Women Mentors

Those of you who have a keen eye may have noticed that our new-look web site does not include the "Forums" or "Mentors" sections that we had in the past. Well, your eyes are not mistaken, those sections are not hidden anywhere on the new site... sadly, those two sections have both been taken off the site, due to spam and maintenance issues. (We announced the withdrawal of the Forums in our February newsletter and we are going to announce the withdrawal of the Mentors section in our upcoming March newsletter.)

The good news is that we have started looking for more creative, user-generated ways to stimulate online expat women networking. We hope to have an alternative networking format to replace the Forums and Mentors sections later in the year.

A H-U-G-E thank you to every single one of our 150 or so Expat Women Mentors, who volunteered their time and wisdom on our site. You are all wonderfully generous women and you really did make a difference!

Thanks for your support everyone, Andrea.

Want Some Tips On Writing & Publishing Your Book?

Anyone who is interested in getting some tips and insights on writing and publishing that book that is inside of them, I highly recommend taking a read of last week's discussion on Barbara Gabogrecan's Micro Biz Navigator Forum for Guest Experts, facilitated by Jo Parfitt, a British expat woman in The Netherlands:

http://www.forum.micronavigator.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=184

Jo, and some of the other published authors who participated in the discussion, share some really great insights that we could all learn from, if we are thinking of writing/publishing a book.

Go for it!

Television Opportunities

Hi Everyone, You may notice on our ExpatWomen.com home page that there is a prompt to visit this blog which says: "Want to get our gossip first? Read our latest news and find out how to be on television!"

If you're new to the Blog and want to know what the "television" bit means, here is an explanation...

From time to time, media (journalists for newspapers, magazines and television shows) contact us looking for Expat Women to feature in various projects. If you scroll through the previous postings, you will see some examples.

We started trying to find women to match the opportunities, but then we decided just to post the requests on this blog as they came through, as there are surely more of you 'out there' that we don't know about, that might appreciate the inside goss.

So, if you are interested in these types of opportunities, just keep an eye on this blog. ;-)

Cheers, Andrea.

Welcome to the New ExpatWomen.com!

Dear Friends,

It is with much pleasure that we unveiled today our new home page. As mentioned previously, the home page is complete, but it will take us a week or two to change over the colours properly on all of the other pages, so thanks for your patience on that.

Full thanks for the new design go to:

1. Beth Nori, of Nori Studios, who has been an ExpatWomen Mentor for us in the UK. Beth wrote to us like a guardian angel one night and miraculously translated our ideas for our new top banner into reality within two days. If you ever need a web designer, we highly recommend Beth! and
2. Our regular web designer, Ines Castro of Blu Concept in Mexico, who spent many, many, many hours with me developing the rest of the home page. Ines, for your patience and persistence, we thank you immensely!

Loyal ExpatWomen.com readers will notice that the feature format on the home page looks different. This is to better profile the selected features and also to rotate the feature concepts from month to month. So, if your favourite feature is not there this month (eg. Book of the Month or Business Idea), just keep a look out in future months.

Home Page features for March:

Special Report: From Chennai to Shanghai: Expat Executive Women in Asia. This is the article that we mentioned in a previous post, that was written for ERC's Mobility Magazine (which they published in February). It is the result of interviews with seven expatriate women working in Asia. Thanks go to Nancy, Christa, Julianne, Basia, Cisca, Lesley and Sarah for their participation. You can read the article and see all of their photos here.

Success Story: Ambassador Sharyn Minahan, Australia's Ambassador to Denmark, Norway and Iceland. Sharyn has had experience abroad in Argentina, Spain, France, Chile, Mexico and is a very interesting woman.

Winning Story: Welcome to the Dark Side - Depression in Cambodia. Yes, we know, not the usual cheery fare, but an excellent account of a very real issue - all over the world. It's very well-written and full credit to the author, Bronwyn Sloan. She fully deserves her US$100 (our lucky last winner of the US$100, as that promotion has now ended) just for the courage to speak out. Congratulations Bronwyn.

Expat Confession: Infidelity Online. This was a very real confession from one of our members. (Name and location changed on request) Has this happenned to you?

New Book Giveaway: Thanks to our friends at Explorer Publishing in the UAE (namely Kate Fox - thanks Kate!), we have a great new book giveaway every month. Instead of five individual winners scoring one book each, Explorer are helping us to give away one complete set of Explorer Mini-Guides (16 in total, and more being published all the time) to one lucky member - who hopefully loves to travel. If you have not got around to joining up yet, please do so here for the chance to w-i-n.

New Bronze Sponsor: Clements International. A very genuine welcome to Clements International, who are a leading provider of trusted and reliable insurance services for expatriates, covering more than 170 countries. If you need automobile, personal, property, life, business, school and/or any other form of insurance, please support Clements, who we thank sincerely for supporting us.

Okay, thanks everyone and we wish you all a wonderful weekend! Andrea

Want to Write for Culture Smart?

Dear Expat Women Writers,

A good friend, Jo Parfitt of the ExpatRollercoaster.com, has been asked to source potential authors for some upcoming Culture Smart! books. If you think you can write about 30,000 words in an upbeat style about what it is like to live in one of the following countries as an expatriate, please email Jo and she can connect you with the series editor.

The countries are: Jordan; Syria; Tunisia; Mongolia; Bosnia Herzogovena; Slovakia; Nigeria; Tanzania; Venezuela; Columbia; and Ecuador. This is a great opportunity to gain a reputation as a country expert and an author. It will apparently earn you GBP1000 (a one-off fee).

If I had lived in any of those countries, I would do it! A thousand Pounds helps pay for the next exciting trip right? Go for it! Andrea.

Face-Lift Update

Hi Everyone, Just a quick update on ExpatWomen.com's face-lift. All going well, we are pleased to report that our mad efforts over the past couple of weeks should be unveiled on March 1! :-)

The navigation bars (that need to be changed manually, on every single page) will take another week or two to update to the new navigation bar colour (which will not be pink). So thanks for your patience on that.

The top banner will however keep our famous pink branding - but it will be a 'new' pink. We hope you will like it.

Thanks and enjoy your day/evening! Andrea

HSBC Offshore's Global Expat Survey

BREAKING NEWS: HSBC Bank International (one of our generous Gold Sponsors) just unveiled an ambitious project to conduct the largest ever survey of expats. Can you please help?

Here's what HSBC said: "The project aims to give more than 2000 expats across four continents the opportunity to have their say on what life is really like for people living and working away from home. The survey will look at opportunities that come with starting a new life in a foreign country away from home, and the challenges and difficulties that they may face at home and at work. The survey will also reveal how new technology helps expats start their new lives and manage their professional and social affairs. It will also find out how expatriate children’s lives differ from the lives of the friends they leave behind."

To make your opinion heard, please visit this link.

Thanks Everyone!