EXPAT LIFE
A Filipina teacher landed a top job in a Kenyan college only to find out that the country’s working culture does not align with her values. Agatha Verdadero writes from Kenya. When…
Untitled articles of my year in León: Part Three In the last part of his memories of Leon, Pecky Dolores tells us his loneliest time in the city, spending summer alone, giving…
A Filipina expat teacher learns how to drink Turkish tea and discovered how the country’s culture and hospitality is anchored on it. I arrived in Turkey in the summer of 2008. It…
Summer. This season brings out so many childhood memories of growing up in Marinduque, one of the 7,100 islands in the Philippines. Summer is one of the only two seasons in the Philippines, and…
Our Nairobi-based columnist Agatha Verdadero has been living in Kenya for two decades. Yet she’s still convincing Filipinos that Kenyans don’t live in mud huts. In this article, she shares with us…
Together with a friend, our EIC Nats Sis Villaluna went to Barcelona to look for a summer job. They came back with a tan. Read about their hilarious job hunting adventure from…
