When it comes to dating, many foreign accents (like French, for instance) are considered sexy. In fact, CNNGO compiled a list of the world’s sexiest accents and placed the Italian accent in first place (lesser known accents like Nigerian, Czech and Thai were also on the list). But when it comes to employment in the US, a foreign… Read More Foreign Accents: A Help or a Hindrance?
I was researching cultural stereotypes for one of the ESL classes I teach when I came across a video clip from the 80’s film Sixteen Candles. The clip shows a Chinese exchange student, Long Duck Dong, drunk and making a fool of himself in heavily-accented, incoherent English. Ironically enough, the actor who played Dong isn’t… Read More The World According to Hollywood
Yep, you read that right. I bought a house! That’s part of the reason I haven’t been updating this blog; I’ve been too busy house-hunting, signing escrow paperwork, buying furniture, decorating and throwing housewarming parties (yes, that’s parties, plural). Not to worry, this doesn’t mean I’m hanging up the suitcase and retiring from the nomad… Read More Update: Your Favorite Travelholic Bought a House
Hi there travel addicts! How’s the travel bug treatin’ ya? Last time we talked, I’d just moved to Vegas and was signing off from this blog for a while in order to finish my book. Well, I’m still in Vegas, though I regret to inform you that the sixth-month deadline for my book has come… Read More A Long Overdue Update
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. I’ve decided to take a break from blogging. Several events lead to this decision, most… Read More Taking a Break from Blogging…
While reading on the beach this morning (I’m back in California for the weekend) I watched as a young girl (she looked to be about two) ran towards the ocean’s shoreline. “Bethany!” screamed what I could only assume was the girl’s mother. “Nooo!” She grabbed Bethany’s arm just as the little girl was about to plant… Read More Raising Risk-Takers
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” — Maya Angelou Since I wrote that post about personality types and their corresponding countries, a lot of you have found this site through google-searching “Where in the world do I belong?”… Read More Help! I Was Born in the Wrong Country!
It’s been almost a month since I last wrote. Yikes! I know. A lot has happened. So let’s do a quick recap, shall we? In the last 20 days, I… 1. Spent four days in Palm Springs 2. Drove to Los Angeles 3. During a moment of job-hunt desperation in a Starbucks in Anaheim Hills, applied for… Read More I Bought a Car and Moved to Vegas
One of my best friend’s from college moved to Palm Springs last year. I’m planning on driving down there tomorrow to visit and celebrate Halloween with her and her boyfriend. I’m not sure what we’ll do while we’re there, but there’s been talk of driving her pimped-out golf cart in a parade and I just googled… Read More Future Travel Plans: Palm Springs, California
A lot has been written on the subject of travel tunes. World Hum created a list of the top 40 travel songs and not to be outdone, Matador created their own list of 30 songs and later added 25 (non-cliched) travel songs. Taking it a step further, Girl, Unstoppable then chimed in with a list of… Read More 7 Soothing Travel Songs Great For Chilling Out To