Tag: international student
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Mindful Expat Episode 43: Studying Abroad (Part 2): Developing Cultural Competence as an International Student (With Guest: Claudia Neiman)
Today’s Mindful Expat Guest is Claudia Neiman! Since moving away from the US at the age of 18 for school, Claudia has lived in Spain, Brazil, and Portugal. Although she has never actually lived in the UK, she has dual US/British citizenship, which lowers administrative hurdles to her living in the EU long-term, and she…
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Mindful Expat Episode 42: Studying Abroad (Part 1): Learning Through the Challenges & Making the Most of Our Experiences (With Guest: Dani Jauregui)
Today’s Mindful Expat Guest is Dani Jauregui! Dani is originally from the Chicago area. While studying at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois – majoring in Sociology and Hispanic Studies – she decided to do a semester abroad in Alicante, Spain. After returning to the US to finish her degree, Dani then decided that she…
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Mindfulness Abroad
You may have noticed that I’ve written a fair number of blog posts on the subject of mindfulness so far. And if you’re an expat or international student following this blog, you may be wondering what mindfulness has to do with your experience of living abroad. Good question! While the practice of mindfulness can be helpful for almost anyone, those…
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Cultural Adjustment, Part 3: There’s No Place Like Home
In the previous article in this Cultural Adjustment Series, we covered some of the most popular theories of cultural adjustment — the U-Curve and W-Curve models. As I mentioned at the end of that article, one aspect of the expat or international student experience that is often left out of these models is the experience of moving back…
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Cultural Adjustment, Part 2: The Expat Rollercoaster
In the previous article in this Cultural Adjustment Series, we discussed the concept of culture shock and how it can manifest differently for different people. Today, we’ll cover some of the basic theories or models of cultural adjustment that have been developed over time to explain the experience of expats and international students when they move…