Make Your Rental House Feel Like Home – Without Damaging it!
Making your rental house feel like a home: it’s a perpetual expat dilemma. On one hand, you probably want to invest your resources into exploring your new country, not into…
Being an Expat Spouse: Farewell Thoughts on One of the Best Times in My Life
We are starting a new series on the blog called "Student Voices." Our language and culture trainees will share various experiences and insights about their expatriation. We're pleased to have…
Golfing Badly for Loaves and Fishes
A nice thing about working at Wetzel Services is that we spend our days with people we like. One of our co-workers often says that she has to work so…
Wetzel’s Private Language Classes – What Our Students Think
At Wetzel Services we offer a variety of ways to learn languages and understand different cultures. Our highly qualified teachers conduct private and group language classes, conversation meet-ups, business culture…
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…