by Mariam | Apr 20, 2020 | Expat CLub, Expat Family, Expat Life, Expat Wife, Families in Global Transition, Global relocation, Globally mobile families, International Move With Expat Kids, Motherhood, Motherhood Abroad, Moving, Pregnancy, Relocation, Stories of Migration, The Expat Life, Uncategorized
I was in Germany on my last book tour for the season, looking out of the window to the cluster of twigs as they gnarled and twisted in the winter wind, when it suddenly hit me. “No, it can’t be…. I’m never late” I whispered to myself as I flipped out my phone and...
by Mariam | Apr 8, 2019 | Expat Life, Families in Global Transition, Motherhood Abroad, Multicultural marriage, Multilingualism, Parenthood, Raising Global Citizens, Raising Multilingual Kids, The Expat Life, Uncategorized
Can you believe my last blog post on ‘And Then We Moved To’ was 8 months ago? Well, if you’ve been following the blog on social media, you’ll know that something was definitely cooking. That’s right, I have been busy working on putting together a MEGA blog post for...
by Mariam | May 24, 2018 | Expat Identity, Expat Life, Families in Global Transition, International Move With Expat Kids, Is it time to move again?, Moving, The Expat Life, Uncategorized
I knew the minute he came home at 5 pm. Early, by his standards, so something was up. “We need to talk, honey” said M. I knew what was coming. Since the start of 2018, we had known that our future hung in a precarious balance. Our expat lives in Dubai had an...
by Mariam | Apr 26, 2017 | Expat Superpowers, Families in Global Transition, The Expat Life, Uncategorized
I looked up at the government officer and could clearly see the confusion on his face. My Pakistani self, didn’t correspond to my American driver’s license or the residence visa in my Italian passport sponsored under my German husband’s name. In Dubai, when your race,...
by Mariam | Dec 3, 2016 | 3rd Culture Kids, Berlin, Copenhagen, Dubai, Dubai Blogger, Expat CLub, Expat Wife, Germany, Is it time to move again?, Italy, Learning a foreign language, Parenthood, Raising Multilingual Kids, Singapore, The Expat Life, Uncategorized
Each time I move to a new country, I usually spend the first month (or two!) asking myself the same question: “what the @#$#$#% am I doing here?” Friendless, jobless and clueless is usually a pretty succinct description of me at the beginning of each expat stint, no...
by Mariam | Oct 25, 2016 | Berlin, Expat Wife, Germany, Learning a foreign language, The Expat Life, Uncategorized
I was standing in the middle of the grocery store, holding my shopping cart, having what could only be described as a nervous breakdown. All because I couldn’t, for the life of me, remember what bread crumbs were called in German. And I couldn’t find them in any...
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