I don’t write about my dating life on this blog much (or at all, really). When you write about your life on the Internet, you gotta draw the line somewhere and I guess that line for me is discussing details of Relationships Past, Present or Future. I think it’s important to respect people’s privacy, which… Read More Dating When You’re A Broad: It Ain’t Easy!
According to the New York Times article More American Expatriates Give Up Citizenship, 743 Americans traded in their citizenship for permanent lives abroad in 2009. And although that’s a minuscule amount compared to the 5.2 million Americans estimated to be living outside the US, it’s a lot compared to the number in 2008 (235) and it’s… Read More Would you ever relinquish your citizenship?
Patriotism by Alex Thomson “U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!” That’s what the crowd of Americans seated at the table next to mine were shouting. My housemates and I were in a sports bar, eating cheeseburgers and buffalo wings and watching the World Cup football (soccer) match between England and the United States. While this may have resembled… Read More Patriotism: Good or Bad?
Today my Dutch roommate told me that he doesn’t like living with expats. “At home I’m special,” he explained. “But here, no one cares that I used to live in Curacao,” naming the Caribbean island he lived on for five months before moving to Guatemala. It’s true. I live in a house with mostly other foreigners who… Read More Why I like Living Abroad
If I could only use one word to describe my life in Guatemala, it would be this: rustic. Well, maybe it’s not rustic by some people’s standards. I mean, I have a roof over my head after all (although I use that term loosely), electricity (well, most days), cable TV, hot water (sometimes) and most importantly, Internet… Read More Roughing It in Xela, Guatemala
Photo by Helminadia Ranford I never thought of my ability to live abroad as a skill, but according to Elizabeth Gilbert, it’s something that some people are better suited for than others. The following is an exert from Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Committed. Committed is the follow-up book to her memoir Eat Pray Love (which has been described… Read More Which do You Prefer: Traveling or Living Abroad?
If you’re sitting in some cafe in Haight-Ashbury and wondering to yourself where all the hippies have gone (like the REAL hippies, not the third-generation-urban-outfit-wearing posers), well, I have an answer for that: Guatemala. While Guatemala doesn’t even register on most people’s radars (“like, is that a city in Mexico?” – is the usual question… Read More The Hippies in Guatemala
“The world is but a canvas to the imagination.” — Henry David Thoreau Lately I’ve been felt so uninspired…so stuck. It seems that every time I settle down in front of my computer with a cup of coffee and the resolution to write something (anything!), I just end up spending the entire afternoon watching… Read More Living abroad makes you more creative…But what happens after you return home?
According to Oprah Magazine, a spontaneous, risk-taking personality type is: “Action oriented, curious, outgoing and lives for new experiences. You are drawn to risk-taking and aren’t afraid to fail. Generally restless, you tend to job-hop or choose a field that offers constant novelty.” When I first stumbled across this in an article entitled “Who are… Read More Are you a Risk Taker?
I can’t write. And when I say that I can’t write, I mean that I can’t write. Anything. No thing. Not a blog post, not my grad school application essay. Not even something as minor league as an email. It’s like my muse has up and abandoned me. He’s found someone new. He’s probably off… Read More Have you seen my Muse?