Expatriate years offer a wonderful time and opportunity to reinvent oneself. As an expatriate you want to hold onto those parts of you that you love and that work for you, no matter where you are. But while you trail around the world, you have the very good fortune to pick up new skills and/or explore hidden ones to add to the tapestry of your life.
Yes, it is true that as an expatriate you do miss your home, friends, family, and the sense of community and security you had before relocating abroad. Traditions that have been part of your life for so long have to take the backseat to new conventions and customs. The “norms” back home are not always quite that current in one’s new host country.
In South Africa I am one of the crowd, in the USA I was the girl with the accent, in Israel I was considered nave, in the UK I was mistaken for an “Aussie” and in Korea I, like many other foreigners get a small taste of what life must be like to live life as a celebrity – always get pointed or stared at just for having eyelids, having a western nose and for merely being a foreigner.
When I started my life as an expat I had no idea...
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