Expat Women Newsletter - October 2008

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Message from Andrea

Hello Everyone! Thank you for joining us again. This month we talk to: Margaret Adamson, Australia's Ambassador to Cambodia; and Rev. Macarena Rose, an expat entrepreneur in Belize.

Thanks go to: Beverly D. Roman, for writing her article for us, Having A Baby: Far From Home; Debra Fentress, for contributing her article Leading An Extraordinary Life; and Vardit Kohn, a Natural Nutritionist, who shares her healthy Weight Loss Secrets.

Our Expat Girlfriend answers a confession on Divorce Abroad, and we showcase the article we briefly mentioned last month, Expat Assignments: Are You Addicted?

Finally, a big thank you to everyone who participated in our ‘Tell A Friend' Promotion last month. The lucky winners are announced at the bottom of this newsletter.

Have an amazing October!

Andrea

Success Story

Business Idea

Margaret Adamson
Ambassador to Cambodia

Margaret is a senior career officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Prior to becoming Australia's Ambassador to Cambodia, she also served abroad in Warsaw, Berlin, Bonn, Hanoi and Vienna, as well as in various senior positions in Australia...

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Rainforest Realty
Rev. Macarena Rose

Rev. Macarena Rose moved from the US to Belize, as the Director of her Church. Two years later, she runs Rainforest Realty, hosts a weekly TV show, has coached the Semi Pro Men's soccer team and is the voice on the cell phone system in Belize.

Your Life

Expat Assignments

Leading An Extraordinary Life
Debra Fentress

In our lives we all make choices on a moment to moment basis. Most of the time, we go through life doing the same routine in the same way. What would happen if you decided to do something in an extraordinary way?

Expat Assignments:
Are You Addicted?
Andrea Martins

If you love living abroad, you see your passport more than your home country, you enjoy a much-envied lifestyle and you hate the thought of repatriating, there is a good chance that you, like many expats before you, have been seduced by the addictive nature of international assignments...

Expat Confession

New Mothers

Divorce Abroad
Expat Women Girlfriend

My 20-year marriage has been slowly disintegrating over the last four years, as my husband and I have tended to argue more and increasingly live our own separate lives. I thought that accepting his first expat assignment...

This Confession can now be found (improved and expanded) in our book: Expat Women: Confessions – 50 Answers To Your Real-Life Questions about Living Abroad.

Having A Baby:
Far From Home
Beverly D. Roman

Moving to another country can and should be an exciting prospect. However, suppose your family has just learned the joyous news that a baby is on the horizon. Now, being far from home takes on a whole new meaning...

Winning Story

Health & Wellbeing

Tales of a Single Woman In The Middle East

After nearly a 20-hour flight, I have to admit when I first looked around I couldn't help think, even though I had the qualifications, my decision to relocate was possibly PMS-driven... Has anyone else ever had one of those days that no matter what's going on in your life... you just blurt out something like "Oh what the Hell, I'll take it"?

Congratulations
Robin
(An American in Qatar)

Weight Loss Secrets
Vardit Kohn

To cover the whole topic of weight loss in just one article is like trying to tie together wet spaghetti - impossible. Being overweight usually has its roots deeply entrenched, which is why losing weight can be such a struggle. If you want to lose weight and keep it off for good, but don’t know how, read on for some new inspiration.