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Hi Everyone! This month we share our interview with , Australia’s Ambassador to Lebanon. Samantha Honey has volunteered some ideas to help you . Robin Fay McNair gives us some tips. Ali Wallace teaches us how to . We showcase Saskia’s Plus Ruth Van Reken (Third Culture Kid expert), helps our Expat Women Girlfriend answer this month’s Expat Women Confession about being an – can you really fit in?

Special thanks go to Jenny Early, who helped us out recently as an intern, while on her gap year in the UK. Jenny writes about her experience Settling-In To An International School and interviews Cathy Dobson about her very entertaining book, Planet Germany.

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Wishing you health and happiness for May,

Success Story

Studying Abroad

Ambassador to Lebanon

Lyndall is currently Australia’s Ambassador to Lebanon. Before joining the Australian foreign service, Lyndall worked for the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in London, Goma (formerly Zaire) and Belgrade.

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Settling-In To An
International School
Jenny Early

My short sojourn in an international school taught me so much more than I was expecting. There is always something torturous about moving to a new school. There are new rules to ...

Feng Shui

Featured Book

Samantha Honey

What woman does not wish for herself and her family a smooth transition into a new home – and wish to find herself and those she loves in an environment that feels welcoming, relaxing and healthy?

Planet Germany
Cathy Dobson

Cathy’s book successfully combines the many quirks of being an expatriate, the intricacies of German culture and her own witty take on her surroundings. We talk to Cathy about her family’s resolution to throw themselves into local German culture, after a decade of living in Germany.

Expat Confession

Fear of Flying?

I am an adult TCK (Third Culture Kid). I have spent my life in Papua New Guinea, China, the US and am now in the Middle East. My country of birth, New Zealand, is actually the country in which I have spent the least time. Recently I lived there in New Zealand for four years. This turned out to be my most difficult posting...

Robin Fay McNair

On every flight, while some passengers are excitedly browsing through their in-flight movie guide, other passengers are fighting their inner fear of flying and thinking things like: "Look out!", " The plane is going to fall out of the sky and crash", "I will be trapped and screaming for my life" ...

Winning Story

Paris Feature

“Chickens shouldn’t mix with lambs and ducks shouldn’t mix with horses,” a Russian friend in England said to me once. I found her remark upsetting. We weren’t discussing animals but people! That was a major difference...

Congratulations
Saskia
(Dutch)

Ali Wallace

The Parisians not only take their food and wine seriously but also their shopping. Shopping in Paris is an art. Once you know a few secrets, Paris can the best place in the world to buy discounted designer items…