Choosing a Life Without Easter Eggs
There’s no denying that we have to make many sacrifices when choosing a life abroad or a life of travel, are they worth it? Is it worth choosing a life without Easter eggs?
Category: Expat Stories
Living Abroad Made Me Appreciate My Parents
Before I travelled, before I lived abroad I was very un-appreciative of my parents. But since then I’ve grown to realise just how incredibly supportive they are of my offbeat dreams!
Losing My Spirit to Settlement
It’s a feeling I hate, the feeling of going nowhere, the feeling of stagnation. For months I’ve felt this feeling ever so quietly creeping up on me. Is Travel the rope that will pull me out of this rut?
Rediscovering China, Rediscovering Inspiration
Writer’s block, when it comes it feels like the most incurable illness and when it hit me I needed to get out of the rut and rediscover China, rediscover inspiration quickly before I went mad!
My Love, Hate Relationship with Shanghai
Shanghai, known as the “Pearl of the East”, a city of affluence, a city of success, a meld of eastern and western cultures. Just a few months into living in China I decided that was the life I wanted, I wanted a Shanghai life…
Half Time: Chinese Apartment VS Sasha
After the exploding toilet incident and power failure I was hoping that was all the apartment had install for me…Alas it was not!!!
Mime Conversationalist
Living in China, I often find myself in situations when I start to wonder how I’ve survived living here for this long speaking such minimal Mandarin. But that’s where being a being a mime conversationalist is my saving grace.
My biff with shopping in China
Cheap clothes, really cheap clothes, I must have been dreaming. That was until I was rudely awoken by the shop assistant telling me I could not try on that really cute dress!
