This is a follow-up to my previous tourist guide to Mexico City blog. I felt it is important to give to the reader besides pictures and descriptions of the places I visited, the feeling and my view of how life looked to me in the city, and explain how it is different than some of …
Short History and facts This August (2021) Mexico City, Ciudad de México (CDMX) as known locally, City turned 500 years old (as México City, the Aztec ruins are around 700 years old). It is ranked one of the Big five cities of the world, with a population of 9 Million and the whole municipality a …
Where is Sedona? Sedona is a small desert town in Arizona more than 4,000 ft in elevation, around 280 miles East of Las Vegas (4.5 hour drive), 115 miles North of Phoenix (2 hour drive), and 120 miles south of Grand Canyon national park – South Rim (2.5 hour drive). Sedona is surrounded with red …
Short History This is a short travel guide to whomever wants to spend a few days in Lebanon. Lebanon is a Mediterranean country in the Middle East. It has Israel bordering from south, Syria from North, and East and the Mediterranean Sea from the west. The island of Cyprus is a close neighbor on the …
Short introduction The challenges and problems of Filipino community in Dubai. In my previous post I tried to talk very briefly about the Filipino community in Dubai. Here I will try to talk more about some of their challenges and problems at work, social interactions with other cultures, and problems created back home because of …
Filipino Community in Dubai (Part 2) – Challenges and Problems Read More »
Short introduction For the readers that do not know much about the Philippines. As a country, the Philippines is a combination of islands located in southeast Asia. The country has diverse cultures living under one flag, different sets of islands have different foods, languages, and even different physical characteristics. Tagalog is the official language of …
Many expats get into bad relationship not knowingly. Imagine, you are in a country alone, maybe for the first time, trying to work and build a future for you and your family back home. After few months of hard work, you feel alone, your family back home is busy with their own thing. You wake …
Last post I talked about what can go wrong in your relationship if and when you decide to take that overseas job. This post I will talk about how people working overseas alone and away from their friends and families can cope with the new environment. The below is based on my own experience and …
In my other posts I wrote about the positive sides of working overseas. It is amazing experience, and once you get used to that, it will be hard for you to stay in one place for long time anymore. On the other hand, among the many down sides of living and working overseas, I think …
Expat Life Might Change Your Relationship With Your Loved Ones Back Home Read More »
If you are leaving your hometown to work overseas for the first time, there are certain things you need to do especially if you are from the western world and have no reliable person to check your mails or take care of payments and answer your home phone. Before talking about the “things you need …
Top Things You Need To Do If Leaving To Work Overseas The First Time Read More »
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