Moving Home After Living Abroad: 4 Tips for Re-Entry
This is not my first experience with re-entry. I’ve experienced two severe bouts of reverse culture shock over the years, along with many milder ones. Here’s what I’ve learned along the way.
This is not my first experience with re-entry. I’ve experienced two severe bouts of reverse culture shock over the years, along with many milder ones. Here’s what I’ve learned along the way.
I spent Christmas at home in San Francisco, and wanted to come back to Chile to ring in 2012. So I booked a one-way ticket on Aeromexico, which happened to be the cheapest one-way flight I could find, and included a 16-hour layover in Mexico City (roughly 7am-11pm). Despite the fact that I couldn’t get […]
Today is All Soul’s Day, and I feel that it’s the ideal time to share photos from the most breathtakingly beautiful cemetery I’ve ever seen. During our trip to Easter Island, we stayed at a modest guesthouse close to this cemetery. I feel a bit weird posting photos of a cemetery, but this place is […]
I had the great fortune to visit Easter Island with my parents. It’s called Isla de Pascua in Spanish and Rapa Nui in the local language. Thanks Mom and Dad for bringing me to such a special place!!
From Google Analytics I’ve learned that lots of readers come to leslieforman.com to learn about Mongolian politics, especially the nature of its democracy, freedom of speech, and relations with the United States. So far, the lone post I have to answer these fascinating questions is this one, about George W. Bush’s visit to Mongolia in […]
Andrea James, who I have never met in real life, always leaves fascinating comments on this little blog. This week she posted a heartbreaking story about the news value of a death. Her story is uncannily similar to one of mine. Suffering is not increased by numbers: one body can contain all the suffering the […]
This adorable little girl lives at the ger camp in the Semi-Gobi Desert, the place where we rode camels. I chose her photo to illustrate this post, because I think her stylish coat and practical boots exemplify the type of consumerism that improves the lives of everyday Mongolians. While I was in Mongolia, the insightful […]
This post started as a comment on Small Hands, Big Ideas, Grace Boyle’s wonderful blog. Following a meme that seems to be flowing around this corner of the blogosphere, she outlines the places she has lived and what they meant to her. Her post begins: I write about it a lot – traveling, my relocating […]
I met Sara in 2004 when she joined Gamma Phi Beta at Cal and became my first little sis. An architecture major passionate about design and creativity, Sara often joked that the world of architecture had too many phallic symbols and not enough yanic symbols. I remember her defining yanic as the female equivalent to […]