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My Battle With Anxiety, Part One – A Rant, A Rave, and a Little Bit of Everyday Life
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A Rant, A Rave, and a Little Bit of Everyday Life. Experiences of a Newlywed Gringa Living in Chile. My Battle With Anxiety, Part One. Between missing out on everything in the states, making new friends, trying to fit into a new lifestyle, managing a new job, and language/cultural barriers, living abroad can be a bitch sometimes. When you add an anxiety disorder into the mix, things get downright complicated. Nothing is lonelier than the emptiness that you have created for yourself. How did I find out?
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About the Author – A Rant, A Rave, and a Little Bit of Everyday Life
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A Rant, A Rave, and a Little Bit of Everyday Life. Experiences of a Newlywed Gringa Living in Chile. I fell in love with a man named Felipe. Yeah, I know it sounds cliché…the American girl goes abroad and falls in love with the country and a foreigner and they have a whirlwind romance. It sounds like a two-dollar romance you can pick up at your local supermarket. My name is Caitlin, and my journey is just beginning. If you would like to read more about my story, click here. Click to share on Google (Open...
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Why I Haven’t Changed my Last Name – A Rant, A Rave, and a Little Bit of Everyday Life
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A Rant, A Rave, and a Little Bit of Everyday Life. Experiences of a Newlywed Gringa Living in Chile. Why I Haven’t Changed my Last Name. I know there are some people out there on my Facebook wondering why I haven’t changed my last name on there. I got married, right? Well, let me tell you that it is not. Due to some random feminist streak I had. There is no reason for me to keep my last name. (Even if I am the last Downs of my line, I like the idea of taking my husband’s last name.). That dictated which ...
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My Battle Against the Chileans’ Version of Spicy – A Rant, A Rave, and a Little Bit of Everyday Life
https://ktayd13.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/chileanspicy
A Rant, A Rave, and a Little Bit of Everyday Life. Experiences of a Newlywed Gringa Living in Chile. My Battle Against the Chileans’ Version of Spicy. This word in Chile and how it is used drives me crazy. If you look back on my post about the essential ingredients. In Chile, nothing on that list would be considered spicy. There is a reason for that. I have never met anyone so sensitive to spicy food. Courtesy of random dave on Flickr. My husband likes to argue with me saying that if things are too spicy...
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The Grand Revival – A Rant, A Rave, and a Little Bit of Everyday Life
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A Rant, A Rave, and a Little Bit of Everyday Life. Experiences of a Newlywed Gringa Living in Chile. Never did I think a small hiatus to gather my senses would turn into almost a year and a half without writing. It is almost inconceivable how fast time passes by…and unfortunately, sometimes the things that we love and put so much time into get pushed aside along the way. 8230;what a heartbreaker! How could I leave my darling blog off on such a depressing note with nary a response afterward? I am incredib...
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Manjar — God’s Delicious Gift to Chile – A Rant, A Rave, and a Little Bit of Everyday Life
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A Rant, A Rave, and a Little Bit of Everyday Life. Experiences of a Newlywed Gringa Living in Chile. Manjar — God’s Delicious Gift to Chile. If you remember, last week I wrote a post entitled Essential Ingredients of the Chilean Kitchen. I am going to tell you now, I left one out. I felt that this ingredient deserved more than just a measly paragraph. It deserves its own post, a recipe book even. That ingredient is called Manjar. My favorite store-brand manjar, about $3 per kilo. Manjar was also one of t...
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Five of the Most Difficult Things About Being an Expat – A Rant, A Rave, and a Little Bit of Everyday Life
https://ktayd13.wordpress.com/2013/11/07/five-of-the-most-difficult-things-about-being-an-expat
A Rant, A Rave, and a Little Bit of Everyday Life. Experiences of a Newlywed Gringa Living in Chile. Five of the Most Difficult Things About Being an Expat. Over the past 11 months that I have been living abroad, I have encountered a lot of difficulties. Lately, I have been encountering a few more, as life doesn’t seem to get any easier. I thought I would share with you what I believe to be the five most difficult things about being an expat. 1 Keeping up Old Friendships. 2 Creating a new friend network.
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so my little girl got attacked by the school’s guard dog | Hola Alpharetta
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So my little girl got attacked by the school’s guard dog. Posted by Susan Hernandez. July 7, 2013. A lady came in with more paperwork to fill out. There were no introductions. Everyone just wanted my national identity number, phone number and address. “Can someone please help my daughter? 8221; I went out a second time to the counter to beg for any pain killer: nothing. I went back in and took a photo. You see rarely will you find the kind of dog we would define as a “pet”in the USA. Ther...My daughter i...
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Work is a Four Letter Word – A Rant, A Rave, and a Little Bit of Everyday Life
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A Rant, A Rave, and a Little Bit of Everyday Life. Experiences of a Newlywed Gringa Living in Chile. Work is a Four Letter Word. So kids, about a month ago, I finally got my first Chilean job. Since then, that job has been my life. So, I was bummed for a little while, but then I sat down and really thought about it: What is an international business that handles clients from different parts of the world where I could use my bilingual and translation skills? In the end, the job that I was offered and acce...