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By: Unni Holtedahl Expat life can at times feel like scenes from a film. Sometimes a satire, sometimes unreal, sometimes even surreal – and not without clichés. Every now and then, I’m actually guest starring in episodes of “Desperate Housewives” (Susan wannabe). The other day, I was doing the following scene:”Courtesy visit to the...
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Expat Dictionary, word of the month:
Netpat noun /net’pæt/: an expat communicating with fellow expats and/or seeking support, advice and possibilities directly linked to expat life on the Internet.
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Our beautiful daughter of six going on seven is a happy holiday girl these days. For a year, she’s been a happy school girl as well, and luckily, I have the feeling she will be just as happy come mid September and the beginning of a new school year. For Mother Hen in persona,...
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We’ve made the big leap and bought a lovely 1929 town house in our new country. What a change from a rented house in which we were never really happy, partly because it’s not ours but mostly because it’s not us. Our new house is both.
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I mean, any month in Paris would do, but there is a reason behind the song - April in Paris, this is a feeling, no one can ever reprise. Nor quite explain, except for the obvious spring reasons. Then again that might very well be the whole explanation - spring just makes this city...
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The clichés are never more numerous nor more beautiful than in spring. Spring fever hits a large portion of the population, caused by a very healthy virus and with giddiness being one of the symptoms. I can see this giddiness that only spring can bring even in our little girls.
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Expat dictionary, expression of the month: expat limbo.
A condition of being between a rock and a hard place in which you might find yourself after a certain time as an expat. Your home country being the rock, your new country the hard place or vice versa. By Unni Holtedahl
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On an early November morning more than eight years ago, I was pacing back and forth across the wooden floors of our apartment, stopping every so often to try to deal with the pain. What made me forget the pacing and the pain for a while, was the light at the break of dawn....
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Expat dictionary, word of the month:
Expat wife: A woman who follows her husband abroad, often for his job, while her new job is caretaker and taxi driver. She takes care of the kids, the home / showroom, herself (as in shopping, body treatments and tennis) and the social network (as in voluntary work, lunches...
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Expat dictionary, expression of the month: Friendship divorce.
Either a two-way split-up, when friends mutually, often tacitly, agree on a divorce, or one- way, when a friend divorces you and you want her to stay, or vice versa. Separation by geography can be a contributing factor to a friendship divorce.
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