Posts about living in the USA as a British Expat!
Yep, I’ve decided that after almost 4 years in America I’m going to return/repatriate back to the UK. It’s not a decision I’ve made lightly, in fact it was a harder decision than the one I first made when I decided to start the US visa process and I’ve agonised over it for a long time. But…
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not being nasty, this is a light hearted post about some of the observations I’ve had as an expat. The UK and the US may both speak the same language but there are some things that do no ‘translate well’. We’ve all heard of cultural faux pas. They are bound…
In December 2018/January 2019, my hair started falling out. Now some of you that have been around for a while, will know that I’ve not coped well with being an expat. Then my body decided it wanted to make sure that I knew that too.
A fun little gift idea for people you may not get to see very often, long distance relationships, expats etc are ‘Open When’ letters! They can be as cheap or as expensive as you like. At the end of the day they come from the heart.
There’s nothing that a British person loves more than to moan about the weather. It’s in our blood. So you can imagine my joy (using the term loosely) when I discovered that Iowa was going to be hit with wind chill temperatures of -50c.
It has been 2 years since I packed up my life in the UK and moved to America. The blogger in me was hoping that by this time I’d be writing posts like ‘how to cope with homesickness’, ‘5 ways to make new friends when living overseas’ etc etc. But the truth is, I suck at…