Tomorrow we will have been in Australia for 2 weeks. My goal on several days has been to get to the end of the day without crying. I have not been very successful. My tears are not so much homesickness as they are the result of overwhelm. But today I […]
This is not a whinge! It’s an attempt to put some flesh on “culture shock” and what it means to lose competence in your own culture. Here’s how it looked on one morning of our first week ‘home’ in Australia. (The tenses are all over the place – because that’s […]
Red Twin continues her guest series on what life is like in the first year of living cross-culturally. Her experiences are from Central Asia but many of them resonated with us as well. Suggestions for how to support cross-cultural workers are in italics. Part One went up earlier this week […]
Meet Jesus at uni 