Sometime last year, I talked to a good friend who lives in the States. She commented that our life seemed awesome with all the travel and new experiences. I agreed wholeheartedly that it was. But I only really broadcasted the good parts. I’ve said before that this experience has been equal parts fun and exciting AND one of the hardest things we’ve ever done. For example, part of the power went out in our apartment yesterday. So late last night, we ended up with several neighbors trying to replace some of the fuses in our building. Usually, something like that is no big deal, but coupled with our lack of Swedish and calling the power company for advice late Sunday evening, let’s say… it wasn’t the best night’s sleep we got. As these things do, it worked out in the end, and we owe our neighbors an even deeper helping of gratitude.
This is an article on integration in the Zurich Newspaper. It's in German but the automatic Chrome / Google translation to English is quite good. The author's perspective is interesting. At a time when many European countries are complaining that immigrants and foreigners don't integrate, she points out that integration is actually very hard, and a lot of the "complainers" should try it themselves and then see!
This is an article on integration in the Zurich Newspaper. It's in German but the automatic Chrome / Google translation to English is quite good. The author's perspective is interesting. At a time when many European countries are complaining that immigrants and foreigners don't integrate, she points out that integration is actually very hard, and a lot of the "complainers" should try it themselves and then see!
https://www.nzz.ch/gesellschaft/migration-auslaender-tun-sich-schwer-mit-integration-ld.1755875
Congrats! I read every post, and this was my favorite. Love hearing how you overcome these expat pitfalls!
Congratulations! Great story.