A Fall Home and Yard Checklist
Houses are both our refuge and our burden. They are the place we go to escape from the world, be ourselves, and wear (or not wear) whatever we want. However,…
Frauke Westrich: Newly Certified Global Mobility Specialist
Congratulations to Frauke Westrich, a Wetzel Services Relocation Specialist, on earning her Global Mobility Specialist designation from Worldwide ERC! Worldwide ERC is a premier trade organization of relocation professionals, and…
Navigating Business Culture: Thoughts from a Serial Expat
The weekend comes and it’s time for a movie night with friends! If you hang out in someone’s living room and stream something, you’ll act differently than if you were…
Being an Expat Kid: The Pros and Cons
I sit on an airplane waiting to take off, and I look across the aisle at two teenage girls. My daughters look back at me, their shoulders rising and falling…
Language Learning for Adults
"Language is like jazz: both are spontaneous compositions derived from a finite set of elements (notes or words). But the jazz analogy may compel people to think that they simply…
Four Things To Do Before Leaving Your Rental Home
With the arrival of summer comes the departure of many expats whose U.S. job assignments are ending. After living here for the past few years, they hand off their work…
Carolina Dance Collaborative: Bringing Dance to Everyone
Sequined costumes, ballet buns, colorful bouquets of flowers, and proud families. We were surrounded by all of it when we had the opportunity to volunteer at the most recent dance…
Expat, Repat: Adjusting to Life After an International Assignment
All good things must come to an end, as the saying goes. Most expats would agree that their international assignments are “good things.” Most are unprepared, however, for the final…
Quarterly Update, Spring 2019
Dear expats and friends, Warmer days, pink and white blossoms fluttering down to green grass -- spring has arrived in Greenville! Here's what's happening in our office these days, starting…
‘My identity went’: Mental health issues torment trailing spouses
"Too many smart women with too much time on their hands." This is how a friend in France described our group of "trailing spouses". I spent eleven years accompanying my…