Category Archives: culture shock

i’m not a sentimental person

Posted on 29/05/2009 by

i’m the kind of mom who thinks kindergarten graduations are stupid silly.  i mean, i didn’t see my children’s completion of their first year of school as a reason to go all cap and gown crazy.  i sort of expected … Continue reading →

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added value

Posted on 29/05/2009 by

we are a movie going family.  we were before we moved and that hasn’t changed.  i think part of what makes it enjoyable to go to the movies here is that it’s something familiar.  a movie theatre is a movie … Continue reading →

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another t-shirt in the making

Posted on 21/04/2009 by

monday evening i went to a “what happens to the kids when a parent is coming and going” seminar.  i came away with all kinds of things to think about.  like how we handle michael’s comings and goings.  which i … Continue reading →

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standing room only

Posted on 26/03/2009 by

i know the picture is a bit fuzzy.  sorry about that.

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I think I’ll be ready

Posted on 12/02/2009 by

our home leave is coming up.  only 5 months away. and while 5 months isn’t quite the same as tomorrow it will still be here before we know it.  and – until today – every time I’ve thought about returning … Continue reading →

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a little exposure

Posted on 13/01/2009 by

today my parents and I took a walk down to Thapae gate.  We stopped and ate lunch and looked in some of the shops.  eventually, my mom and I caught a tuk tuk to the kids’ school so we could walk … Continue reading →

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it’s been a year!

Posted on 13/01/2009 by

a year ago today I wrote the following two posts.  I don’t think I had any idea how well we would do here.  how good this move would be for us.  I think the biggest surprise for me this year … Continue reading →

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our first Christmas abroad

Posted on 29/12/2008 by

we’d been warned that it would be awful – the worst ever – because that’s the way all first Christmases abroad are.  I don’t really believe they are all that way, but I was prepared for ours to be.  and … Continue reading →

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learned at the Christmas party

Posted on 16/12/2008 by

the Brit’s sing some Christmas carols to the wrong tune.  imagine trying to sing Away In a Manger to the wrong tune.  it makes it very difficult. the Brit’s also have their very own Christmas songs.  songs I’ve never, ever … Continue reading →

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are there language lessons for that?

Posted on 08/12/2008 by

recently, it’s been brought to my attention that animals speak in different tongues. and i had no idea that one country’s animal onomatopoeia isn’t the same as another.  for example, an american pig goes “oink, oink” while a japanese pig … Continue reading →

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