I Live In a Foreign Land

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Klly

I'm An American Living In Reykjavik

I have been here for 7 months and have some mixed emotions about it. I have had the best of times and the worst of times, to steal a bit of Dickens. But seriously it is amazing here although the winter may prove to be my undoing. I am...

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Written on August 5th, 2010
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hackStud

The Death Of My Spirit

Well, 2 days ago I just got back to my house in Texas — the first time this 2012. I'd spent the last 2 months in Batam, Indonesia living with my 18 yo girlfriend and her family. Things were immediately odd in Indonesia: I couldn't hug...

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Written on February 23rd, 2012
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mjg1972

Emigration and Loneliness

I left Ireland almost four years ago with my husband and three kids. It has, without a doubt, been the hardest four years of my life. I miss the simplicity of home. Lately, I feel completely overwhelmed with regret and...

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Written on October 2nd, 2008
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KristenWithaK

An American In Denmark

I'm an American living in the Copenhagen area for about 6 months now. I love it here, but I often long for small things from home...like peanut butter, affordable everything, people to talk to in my native language, etc. I miss my...

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Written on January 4th, 2010
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got2give2get

An American In Turkey

Wow! Living in Turkey, I know people like to hear about it but I never felt so "put on the spot" about it. It is beautiful here in Bodrum, but I so miss home. For me home is Pennsylvania and it is not so much the land I...

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Written on March 2nd, 2010
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mgtour

I Live In Mexico

I am much happier here, it's the old "little fish looks for a small pond"? or the thought of living in Japan where you need to have an engineering degree to empty garbage cans seems a bit difficult for my little brain. Here if I show up...

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Written on June 28th, 2010
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"I stopped all forms of trying to touch this girl, be it a morning hug, a pat on the ass for encouragement, or even holding hands..."
"like peanut butter, affordable everything, people to talk to in my native language, etc..."
"Anyway, so I'm trying to read this girl ; a super hard thing to do, considering I didn't understand the culture, only barely understood the language, and on top of all of that, she had been strongly influenced by women of Indian heritage and if there's one thing any man that knows about Indian women can tell you, it's that you never really know what they're thinking..."

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