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Review of ‘An Inconvenient Posting - an expat wife's memoir of lost identity' - Expatlog | Expatlog
Dangerously evocative reading for those acquainted with the invisible assassins Culture Shock and Depression. Describing an encounter with depression during her family’s expatriation to Houston, USA, Laura J Stephens’ memoir will strike a chord with displaced souls everywhere. Straight-talking, hard-hitting While those on nodding terms with ‘the black dog’ will undoubtedly find something of interest here, the expat niche is where ‘An Inconvenient Posting’ will garner its greatest appreciation. The devil in the detail While it’s the dramatic, life-changing events that capture our imagination, in reality, the tightening screws that stretch our lives and test our endurance make themselves felt in more subtle ways. In an unflinchingly honest description of psychological displacement, she lays bare her insecurities, hopes and naivetés, so that like Doubting Thomas, we can approach, poke our fingers into her wounds and see for ourselves the discomfort and distress she overcame.
My Year in China - Blog
The adults who suffer extreme homesickness
5 June 2013Last updated at 07:59 ET By Tom Heyden BBC News Footballer Jesus Navas, who is moving from Seville to Manchester City, has had a career shaped by homesickness so severe it stopped him playing for Spain. It's a condition that affects a surprising number of adults. For years Jesus Navas was a staple of football gossip columns. For years Navas suffered so severely from homesickness that he could spend no great time away from Seville, itself less than 19 miles from his birthplace of Los Palacios y Villafranca. Now it is said he has overcome his homesickness through counselling. Navas rejected a move to Chelsea in 2006 because he feared he'd be homesick Homesickness in adults is often associated with students moving out of home for the first time - research suggests that up to 70% experience it at some point - but as people increasingly migrate to bigger cities or even further afield, it's a feeling shared by many older people. Continue reading the main story I'm dying to return.
Many Foreign Students Find Themselves Friendless in the U.S. - Students
By Karin Fischer More than one in three foreign students in a new survey say they have no close U.S. friends, and many say they wish they had more, and more-meaningful, relationships with Americans. Students from China and elsewhere in East Asia report fewer friendships and greater dissatisfaction than do other international students. The study of more than 450 students at 10 public universities in the South and Northeast supports what educators have observed anecdotally: Many students from abroad, and especially the recent influx of undergraduates from China, are struggling to integrate in American classrooms and dorm rooms. That's troubling, college officials say, for both foreign students and their American counterparts. "Where else can people meet and have the time and the freedom to make friends across cultures than at college?" To survey students, Ms. Although 27 percent said they had three or more close U.S. friends, 38 percent said they had no strong American friendships. Ms. Ms.
CSC Scholarship - 2012 General Discussion - Life, Work and Study in China in General
**This year's application process is nearly over, so please join us in the CSC Scholarship Results - 2012 topic for discussion on results. The following information was put together by the CSC Goddess extrapages with the help of admins and members. **The EU scholarship may still be available. See the American/EU topic for details. We've decided to make a new thread for the next round of CSC scholarship applicants. The plan is to make a fresh one each year. Before we start: please check out the ARCHIVED posts from the past - it's a lot of information to sift through but it will answer the majority of your questions. This topic is for general CSC scholarship discussion. The Basics Website: and Eligibility: (READ THIS)Application Forms: This thread is ONLY about the Chinese Government Scholarship - none of the others listed on the website. What We Know Very close to absolutely nothing. U.S.
