First visit home after relocating overseas

Visiting home after moving abroad That first visit back to your home country after relocating overseas can raise a mass of emotions and is often approached with mixed

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Minimizing culture shock in both parent and child

Coping strategies for culture shock Expat parents and children can experience culture shock on more than one occasion. The obvious time for culture shock to strike is when

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Holidays and visits ‘home’ as an expat

Trips back to your home country How often do you travel back to your home country for holidays? Can you actually call them holidays? Expats who move regularly

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An unhappy expat child

“I am an expat child and I don’t like it” This Google search term led a young reader to ‘Expat Child’, which was a shock, and gave rise

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Quotes on homesickness and friendship

Friendship quotes Some weekend inspiration for you if you’re feeling a little homesick or are missing your friends and family for whatever reason: Nothing makes the earth seem

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Where is home?

A tricky question Along with “where do you come from?” and “what do you do?”, the “where is home?” question is always a tricky one to answer when

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Keeping in touch while overseas

Keep in touch Keeping in touch with your family and friends when you live overseas is simple in these days of modern technology. The internet has revolutionised such

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