Living in another country as a permanent expat, you develop new roots. You essentially grow up again in a new environment, despite your age. I often feel as if I have lived two life times. One lifetime in Montana, then a completely separate and new lifetime in Denmark. However, I…
So you just moved abroad. Now what? With your suitcase packed to the brim and hopes in hand, it's important to establish a feeling of home abroad immediately. I mapped out some more immediate steps to do as soon as you arrive: get organized, invest in your immediate surroundings, get…
The Situation I remember this vividly... after my husband Rune and I did long distance for an entire year from Denmark to Montana, the moment had finally come that I was to permanently move to Denmark. I was so caught up in the romance and my love for Rune, that…
When I originally moved abroad to Denmark to study abroad for one year at Aarhus University, it was genuinely the first time I began thinking about how I was perceived culturally. Of course my American accent and the fact that I was speaking English, immediately gave me away as being…