I get to travel again next week - yippee! - although it's only a quick trip, over to the Gold Coast in Queensland, the other side of Australia, to attend the Problogger conference. I haven't been to the Gold Coast since I was twelve and then it was an extremely quick look. I won't have much time to …
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Multiculturalism when you’re a three-year-old boy
So, I've got a question - how do you teach kids about different cultures without emphasising the differences so much that being different starts to sound like a bad thing? This is something I think about quite a lot, because I'd kind of like my son to notice people first, cultures and races second. …
Reverse culture shock even after a month in Europe
When I returned from living abroad in Europe and Asia for more than five years, I suffered from some reverse culture shock: I found it hard to settle back in to "normal" life in Australia, I felt detached from my friends, and I was sad that nobody seemed to want to hear about my time away and many …