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A Monday Minute – Life Is Like A Game Of Skittles…

Posted on February 26, 2018by makingherehome

Or ten pin bowling. And in this game, it’s us who are the skittles (although at the moment I’m feeling more bowling ball shaped, but that’s another issue entirely…). When you move, you end up in a place with lots of other people you have never met before. It may take a while, but these […]

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Moving schools mid-year?

Posted on March 20, 2017August 30, 2017by makingherehome
Coloured pencils in a circle, moving schools mid-year

Moving schools is always hard. Moving schools mid-year is even harder. We moved our daughter half way through a term when we moved to Bangkok. My advice based on this? Avoid it if you can. And in an ideal world, we would avoid it. Every move would be timed to coincide with the start of […]

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Making Friends When You Move Overseas: The F Bomb

Posted on November 11, 2016August 31, 2017by makingherehome
Making Friends talking in front of a lake

Making friends. Not something you normally have to worry about too much, right? But then, when you move overseas and haven’t got any, ‘friends’ can seem like a bad word. It’s lovely when you’ve got lots of them. But when you’re in a new place, and you don’t know anyone…well it’s a word more likely to […]

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