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Rocking a Rocky Reentry – Repatriating During a Pandemic

Interview with Rebecca Lüppen Rebecca Lüppen is the founder of SheExpat (www.sheexpat.com) and provides expat career and life coaching for female professionals and executives. She helps female expats actively manage the changes that a mobile life brings, balance work and personal life and interact confidently and successfully within different cultures. Rebecca and I have known each other for a little over a year. We both…

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Reentry – Pandemic Edition

Arriving in Limbo The Corona pandemic has turned all our lives upside down and confronted us with unexpected challenges. It also hit many expats hard in 2020/21. It affects those who had just started their adventure abroad and are struggling to familiarize themselves with the new environment. It also affects those who have already been abroad for a longer period of time, but who now…

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Building Bridges with our Stories: Christmas in Germany from a Muslim’s Perspective

How do my fellow citizens of other cultures and religions perceive German and Christian traditions during the Christmas season? I went and asked a Muslim friend who is originally from Afghanistan and she wrote me these lovely lines: “When we bumped into each other in town the other day, you asked me to describe Christmas from my perspective. I have been living in Germany for…

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