#100 We’re Going to Have a Meeting About the Meeting

Malcolm from Sydney, Australia, gives us some tips on how to reinvent ourselves when starting over in a new country. Also, why do Swedes need so many meetings?
Malcolm from Sydney, Australia, gives us some tips on how to reinvent ourselves when starting over in a new country. Also, why do Swedes need so many meetings?
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On this week’s expat podcast episode, Samantha, from South Africa, runs Stockholm Girl Gone International, an online group for expat...
The snow is melting today and it’s just a big slush of muddy roads and giant slabs of ice falling...
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I used to be in charge of the fruit basket at a previous job. Then they asked someone else to...
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I’m starting to easily understand the old story of Alexander Fleming leaving an experiment over a long weekend and discovering...
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I have to read food news for my job. The headline for one said, “Make your own cheese with only...
A few summers ago as we were relaxing at a Swedish “beach,” a man came around wearing a white backpack...
“förnämliga” That is the word I had to translate the other day (I work part-time translating documents from Swedish to...
Today I got lost on my way to work and ended up in front of the Latvian Embassy.
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Sweden is great because sometimes you can get 50% jobs as well as 75% jobs. It works out well especially...
I’m looking for something part-time to supplement my translating work. I like the ads that are straight and to the...
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