Tag: Travel
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What I Appreciate About Life In The US After Living Overseas
5 Things I Loved In 2022 January 2023-Milwaukee, Wisconsin As you probably know by now, I spent the last seven years living in Jordan (with a strange, brief stint back in the states in the early COVID days. More on that weird time later). After I moved back to Boston last April, I had a…
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Expat Life As Seen by a Newcomer Vs. A Cynic
And The Expat Street Cred Score One year after moving from the US to Amman, Jordan One of the things I most appreciate about living overseas: everyone is interesting. Everyone has some story to tell or is doing some interesting work. Life in Amman can be hard, dusty, and sometimes exhausting. But it is also…
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How My Friend Helped Me Make Peace With My International Life
Flying across the Atlantic is one of my favorite things to moan and gripe about, so one day last winter, I found myself moaning and griping about it to my dear friend Rosi. I’d just flown to Wisconsin from Jordan by myself, because my husband Raja did not have a visa to enter the US…
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My Ongoing, One-Sided Battle With the Atlantic Ocean
I don’t think the Atlantic knows that she and I are in a fight. We fly to Amman tonight, and our two giant pink suitcases are nearly packed. By that I mean they are sitting in the middle of the living room floor surrounded by a huge mess of clothes, shoes, and gifts – chocolate…
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Me Vs. The Bureaucrats of Amman, Jordan
Or, The Part No One Tells You About Living Abroad Jordanian bureaucrats are quirky, funny creatures. They all have mustaches, gelled hair, and a cigarette lodged between their lips while they process (and drop ashes onto) your paperwork. The main requirement for extending a tourist visa[1] at one of the local police stations is that…
Curious Georgie 
–مرحبا سلام Thank you so much, what a lovely comment to receive! I think you’re right; we can’t always be…