Contact Us Click here to send us your comments. Forget about all the expectations, rhetoric, fixed beliefs and stereotypes about the west and living abroad.
Reality is different, neither better nor worse, just different.
When the plane touched down on the wet and dark airport, I was not nervous. I had everything fixed and in order in my mind. Even the fixed cold smile on the emigration officer face, everything is going as planned, but once outside, in the street, things are different. You can rehearse the words, the pronunciation and the ideas, but stopping an English gentleman with a nice hat and umbrella and actually asking for directions, in English, is not an easy task whatever your mastery of language is. Words start to slightly wobble, a shade of embarrassment in the face and a spot or two of sweat in the cold.