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How Living Abroad Brought Me Closer to My Culture

I’ve grown up in a school that has actively promoted patriotism. We had to memorize our eight-paragraph-long national anthem and

Being an au pair is certainly an experience that I will never forget. I couldn’t forget the fun and cute

Moving to a new city or country comes with bittersweet feelings. You leave the place in which you’ve been living

More than 8 Million people call Honduras their beloved home. Despite suffering from extreme poverty, corruption, and violence and having

The Netherlands is one of the top vacation destinations to which Germans love going every year and at first I

I’ve come from never having traveled to abruptly moving into other countries and traveling alone. During my first travels I

We all know about those must-go destinations around the world: Eiffel Tower, Great Wall of China, Taj Mahal, Leaning Tower

Ah, languages. It’s incredible how great the variety of languages around the world is and how they have developed through

For those mothers who are thousands of kilometers away or not on this planet anymore, this letter is for you:

We all as teenagers create expectations of having our lives figured out when we reach a certain point in time.