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Self Realizations from Living Abroad
Learning How to be a Citizen of the World
This guest blog is by Ava Apollo. When she’s not writing for MSW, she’s blogging about adventure travel at bemytravelmuse.com. The term “citizen of the world,” or “global citizen,” gets thrown around often in the travel community. It sometimes seems as though it is used as a rite of passage into the “club” populated by those who [...]
Self Realizations from Living Abroad: Coming Back Home
Ava’s journey in Taipei ends and she discusses the changes after moving back home.
Self Realizations from Living Abroad: When it Gets Tough
Self realization: Studying abroad brings more challenges forth than you ever think it will. Life will be changed, and there may be rough patches, but stick with me through the rest of the story. It was all worth it, in the end. I promise.
Self Realizations From Living Abroad: I’m A Tourist
This guest blog is by Ava Apollo. When she’s not writing for MSW, she’s blogging about adventure travel at bemytravelmuse.com. For the previous post in this series, click here. Winter was an exciting time in Taipei for a few reasons; it was nearly time for lunar new year, it was too cold for mosquitoes to keep tormenting [...]
Self Realizations from Living Abroad: Taipei is Beautiful
This guest blog is by Ava Apollo. When she’s not writing for MSW, she’s blogging about adventure travel at bemytravelmuse.com. For the previous post in this series, click here. Opening tangent: I realize I’ve lagged tremendously on posting this installment. I know it sounds odd, but every time I sit down to write, all kinds of emotions [...]
Self Realizations from Living Abroad: Chance Encounters
This guest blog is by Ava Apollo. When she’s not writing for MSW, she’s blogging about adventure travel at bemytravelmuse.com. For the previous post in this series, please click here. Via a few texts back and forth (nobody in Asia actually talks on the phone, we just text, it’s just what we do over there. God forbid [...]
Self Realizations from Living Abroad: Meeting Fellow Expats
This guest blog is by Ava Apollo. When she’s not writing for MSW, she’s blogging about adventure travel at bemytravelmuse.com. Click here for the previous post in this series. After the typhoon blew through Taipei, life returned to normal. Classes resumed, and I had spent a considerable amount of time working on my assignment: giving my classmates [...]
Self Realizations from Living Abroad: Typhoons?
This guest blog is by Ava Apollo. When she’s not writing for MSW, she’s blogging about adventure travel at bemytravelmuse.com. For the previous post in this series, please click here. It was time. Time to shut the windows. Time to huddle inside. Time to stock up on foodstuffs. Most of all, it was time to stock up [...]
Self-Realizations from Living Abroad: I Can Eat Anything
This guest blog is by Ava Apollo. When she’s not writing for MSW, she’s blogging about adventure travel at bemytravelmuse.com. For the previous post in this series, please click here. The fall had fallen on Taipei. This made me particularly happy because now, I could wear pants and limit the area available to mosquitoes to just my [...]
Self-Realizations from Living Abroad: I’m A Giant
This guest blog is by Ava Apollo. When she’s not writing for MSW, she’s blogging about adventure travel at bemytravelmuse.com. For the previous post in this series, please click here. The next few weeks were a blur of new and exciting things. I had a room in an apartment, and a well-connected roommate who served as the link [...]
