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A Traveler In The Foreign Service: The Best Foreign Service Blogs {Gadling}
Oct 2nd 2012 2:47PM
Hey, there! Thank you very much for listing our family/travel blog...
I do appreciate being listed with the other cool ones... [smiles!]
Being part of the FS community, having to move every so often,
supporting the spouse's job/responsibilities, is definitely an easy
task! Add to that, as you mentioned, being always a 'parent-on-duty'
to multicultural/multilingual children... But somehow, we love it! And
it's pretty nice to realize others find good readings/resources
through the posts! Loved your 'elsewhere'! The FS has also gifted us
with opportunities to live in Africa (Mozambique, South Africa,
Swazi)! Congrats on the nice work, btw! Greetings from "Breathless La
Paz"! :o
A Traveler In The Foreign Service: The Best Foreign Service Blogs {Gadling}
Oct 2nd 2012 2:19PM Hey, there! Thank you very much for listing our family/travel blog... I do appreciate being listed with the other cool ones... [smiles!] Being part of the FS community, having to move every so often, supporting the spouse's job/responsibilities, is definitely an easy task! Add to that, as you mentioned, being always a 'parent-on-duty' to multicultural/multilingual children... But somehow, we love it! And it's pretty nice to realize others find good readings/resources through the posts! Loved your 'elsewhere'! The FS has also gifted us with opportunities to live in Africa (Mozambique, South Africa, Swazi)! Congrats on the nice work, btw! Greetings from "Breathless La Paz"! :o
A Traveler In The Foreign Service: A 'Trailing Spouse' Speaks Out {Gadling}
Jun 8th 2012 9:27AM Thank you, Jennifer (and Dave) for sharing this... I feel really connected to your (blog)post... It´s so true...
Life in the Service for the so-called "trailing-spouses" is definitely not easy, but not at all, impossible and/or unbearable...
I´ve heard/read many stories, talked to several spouses, like myself, working and not working while the partner is, as you mentioned, "at the English-speaking work bubble" (not in a bad way, at all!). I´ve been collecting experiences, tales, comments, shared advice on how and how not to, raise multicultural/multilingual children...
There are benefits, for sure, and you nicely mentioned them along your post. There are several challenges, obviously. Cultural barriers, language difficulties, just to cite a few. But I´m a firm believer that, if one is willing to take up on the challenge, at least, there´ll be some `motion´, some movement, if not any progress... Deciding to isolate oneself from the expat/US community should never be an option, but I understand some do it - and they´ve got their own reasons to do so...
Thanks again for sharing your experiences and for the very well written post.
Kind regards from another ´traveling family in the FS´.
