Category: Ex-pat Advantages
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Too late for a new start?
It’s obviously a little late in the year to post a “new year, new goals” post, but nothing in 2024 went as planned, so why should 2025 be any different? Let’s take our cue from the lunar new year instead. To be honest, I have been reluctant to commit my goals to paper for fear…
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Resolutions: the start of year three
Last week marked the two-year anniversary of our arrival in Shanghai. So much in our lives has changed since that first lonely week in our new home. We returned from a summer in the US and easily settled back into the school/ayi/work/activities life we had carved out for ourselves over the past two years. Everything…
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1 year in
Yesterday was our one-year anniversary of living in Shanghai. I thought it would feel more momentous somehow, and it ended up being just another day. But I think that’s good. I think it means I have finally stopped thinking of myself as someone who just moved here, and instead look at my life here as…
An Ocean Away 