Tagged With: Reverse Culture Shock
Raising Risk-Takers
While reading on the beach this morning (I’m back in California for the weekend) I spotted a two-year-old girl running towards the shoreline. “Bethany!” screamed what I could only assume was the girl’s mother. “Nooo!” She grabbed Bethany’s arm just as the little girl was about to plant a sneakered foot into the salt water. “That’s dangerous!” … Continue reading
Help! I Was Born in the Wrong Country!
”The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” – Maya Angelou Since I wrote that post about personality types and their corresponding countries, a lot of you have found this site through google-searching “Where in the world do I belong?” … Continue reading
Dear America, Stop Trying to Change Us! Love, an Introvert
“If you could chose three adjectives to describe yourself, which ones would you chose and why?” Ah, a tired, clichéd question and standard favorite among job interviewers the world- over. How many of you have been asked that question before? And what did you say in response? Well, if you’ve ever been to a job … Continue reading
America, I Love you but…
“Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live … in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.” – Anatole Broyard I once visited a zoo in Kathmandu, Nepal. The zoo was like a poorly-tended hospice; … Continue reading
Alice in Americaland
Alice in Wonderland by Annie Leibovitz “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G. K. Chesterton “So how are you adjusting to life back in the US?” That’s a question I’ve gotten asked … Continue reading
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