Tag: Expat

choke me in the shallow water, before I get too deep

I was thinking the other day, about fantasies I’d had of going home a changed woman – somehow I’d fly into my home town with an air of Europe woven into me. I’d speak differently, walk differently, think differently. I’d breeze into Philadelphia, to old haunts and dress in a way that made people at […]

I’m drinkin’ a soy latte, I get a double shot-ay it goes on through my body and you know I’m satisfied I drive my mini cooper and I’m feelin super duper and they tell me I’m a trooper and you know I’m satisfied

Ok, so… I have passed through a mini hell (during which I managed not to slip into convulsions laying in the streets of Prague screaming, “I hate you I hate you I hate you!!” but only rolled my eyes and re-declared my very complicated love-hate relationship with this place but right now I’m truly truly […]

it’s starting to happen

I’m becoming all-consumed with The Move. That means I might actually be posting a little less, for real this time. I’ve spent hours at the computer for the past couple days researching housing, emailing groups like American Women in Prague (through yahoo), Czech bloggers I’ve found, and sending emails to housing agencies over there – […]