Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Change, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Global Issues, Identity, Repatriation, Third Culture Kids (TCKs), Expat Teens, Travel, tagged 'unexpected angels', Beijing, comings and goings, connections, crisis, emergencies, expatriate life, expats, Families in Global Transition, FIGT conference, grief, helping each other, identity, intercultural transitions, Kuala Lumpur, leaving, loss, Malaysia Airlines flight #370, mobility, sanctuary, saying goodbye, turmoil on March 26, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
In the early days of missing Malaysian Airlines Flight #370, I had no intention of writing about it. The tale of how 239 people boarded an airplane in Kuala Lumpur but never made it to Beijing is a sad, troubling one. The last thing I want to do is add to the grief, frustration and […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Exercise & Sports, Expat Authors & Others, Expat Life, Riveting Expat Reads, Writing, tagged A Kindle in Hong Kong, author, Beijing, Beijing Olympics, blogging, book, contest, expat, father, Father's Day, father-daughter, Hong Kong, London Olympics, Olympics, Shannon Young, The Olympics Beat: A Spectator's Memoir of Beijing, writing on May 29, 2012 | 9 Comments »
[Updated 20 June 2012] Today is a very special day here at Adventures in Expat Land. We have a guest post from the talented Shannon Young, a writer and American expat living in Hong Kong. I ‘met’ Shannon a year ago when I stumbled on her blog via Twitter. I’d recently purchased a Kindle, and […]
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