I often feel like this since I started blogging. This is a funny thing. When I started blogging, it was to have release and to find purpose, or rather to direct my purpose in a more focused way. For the past six months I have writing my blog and am constantly amazed and interested in what people respond to, frequently feeling similarly to ‘Sweetmother’ here! The more I write and the more I read both online and in books, the more I realize falls under the point of my blog. The more I read online, the more I want to write. The more I dive deeper into my adopted culture, the more I want to write. I love this new (to me) world, I love to see how it is evolving and how I evolve because of it too.

Anonymous Good Person's avatarSweet Mother

The below is a list of what happens in my brain for the next 31 minutes after I hit “publish” each and everyday.  Note:  I only have about 1 original thought per minute, the other thoughts within that minute are variations of the original-thesis thought for that correpsonding minute.

 

Min 1:  “Did my post suck today?  It’s been a minute and there is only one “like”.  Maybe it sucked.”

 

Min 2:  “It’s Sunday, people don’t read very many blogs on Sunday, that’s a low-views day according to my stats.”

 

Min 3:  “Oh, wait, it’s Monday.  Okay, that is also a low-views day – so is Tuesday and Wednesday and hold on…”

 

Min 4:  “I should’ve written about my Mom.  People like it when I write about my Mom or my Wifesy.”

 

Min 5:  “I don’t think I should’ve capitalized Mom in that last minute…

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“[insert your country/continent here]…is like a trap.”

In the November 2011 issue of Delano magazine (Luxembourg), writer Aaron Grunwald, interviewed Eleonora, a Brazilian expat who has lived in Luxembourg for the past eighteen years. One of her first comments in the interview was that “Luxembourg is like a trap, a gilded cage. The moment you come, you always think, ‘I’m going to leave in three years.’…Everyone does, it is just so easy to live here…” After living in Europe now for nearly three years, I would have to agree with Eleonora.

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A secret advantage to expatriation and immigration that no one seems to know

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It is time for a poll….Where do you live?

So, over on my Facebook page I created a poll about where people live and work today. Since my husband and I live and work in a country other than that of our birth, it got me thinking who else now lives and works in a different country than they grew up in?

So, please if you don’t mind take my poll, here: “How many of you found work (for whatever reason) outside your home country (be it the USA, Britain, France, Italy, etc) and are currently living & working in another country? Also, if I miss a country or area please feel free to add it.”

Please answer the question and send it to your friends. I don’t care if they know me or not. I would just like to see how this turns out. I don’t know yet when I will close the poll – if I will, or if I can. I did attempt to recreate the poll here and perhaps if this doesn’t work I will attempt again, but it wouldn’t allow me to cut and paste the questions from the Facebook version to the PollDaddy version.

Also, if you want to be my Facebook friend you can look here: AmericanDream InEurope

I also have a fan page for my blog: Living the American Dream In Europe

I admit though, having this account tied into Facebook is rather new to me and I don’t actually get on the Page much.

So, check it out and let me know your answer. I thank you kindly for your answers in advance!