“Can I come and live with you please as you always seem to have so much more fun over in the beautiful USA?!”
My British friend wrote this sentence to me the other day after seeing me post some fun pictures of an event I was at in Columbia, Maryland, USA. She카지노 게임 컬렉션s right 카지노 게임 컬렉션 we do have fun here, because we choose to.
On the same day an American friend told me she was talking to a mutual friend (our hairdresser, naturally) and they had been discussing how I “put them to shame” with all the stuff I do, get involved in, and all the travels I undertake. I replied what I always reply when people comment on how busy I am as an expat. “I카지노 게임 컬렉션m not here forever. I just want to make the most of it.”
I카지노 게임 컬렉션m not a forever expat. I카지노 게임 컬렉션m a three-year expat, and that time will be up next year. There is still so much to do and to see, and to strike off the bucket list.
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I spend my expat life exploring. I explore the people, the places, and the psyche. I love finding new things, having experiences that are exceptional to the place I am in, and meeting the community in which I live. Life as an expat can be hard, don카지노 게임 컬렉션t get me wrong, and I wonder about many things about my UK life, but often folks ask me “Do you miss home?” and I reply, “No, because I카지노 게임 컬렉션m too busy having fun.”
So, what have I done that has made my expat experience so thrilling? We decided that this experience was not just about the “big things”, so not just about the travel and the vacations, but also about what happens today, this very moment. I live in a carpe diem mindset. Someone invites me to a political event? I go and experience American politics! There카지노 게임 컬렉션s a “pot luck lunch”? Never experienced that before, I카지노 게임 컬렉션m in! A state fair with all the trimmings? Sure, why not!?
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These differences can only truly be found in the fabric of everyday life in the USA, so that카지노 게임 컬렉션s what I immersed myself in and that is what makes up my whole experience. Oh, the road trip in California was amazing; the adults-only weekend in New Orleans was fascinating; the week in Texas was mesmerizing; the trip to Florida was exciting; and the weekends in New York have been thrilling. But, working in the American workplace, attending American events, having American friends, integrating into the American community, and being genuinely exposed to the USA and its people, its culture and its sensibilities has been the richest, most rewarding experience of my expat life.
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And that is why every moment counts in my once-in-a-lifetime expat life, and why those boxes can remain unpacked, and why that larder can remain higgledy-piggledy, and why we just have to keep on having fun while we can, because soon it will all be over and I will miss it all. I just hope that I can take elements of the person I am now, at this time and place, and transfer them and my positive outlook back to the UK, because I카지노 게임 컬렉션ve learned that what I do now is a wonderfully enriching way to live life, wherever you are.
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