Coming Home: The Repatriation Experience, Part 2
(Read Part 1 here.) Coming home after an extended international assignment turns out to be harder than most expats anticipate. If you’ve been gone for a few months or years,…
Coming Home Isn’t Easy: Repatriation, Part 1
If I am home now, why do I still feel like a foreigner? Before becoming Language and Communications Manager at Wetzel Services, I taught English for three years in northeastern China. It…
Holidays in America: New Year Celebrations
In the Holidays in America series, we’ve talked about Halloween, Thanksgiving, and the very busy month of December, from Black Friday to Christmas Day. Finally, Americans close out the year…
Immerse Success!
Since July, our new program, Immerse: Executive English Greenville, has given several international professionals the chance to improve their English while exploring Greenville and mixing with the locals. Andrea, from Germany, and…
Idioms at Work
Even if your English language skills are strong, you may not understand some of the more colloquial phrases that are used in conversation. You may already know that an idiom…
Holidays in America: Halloween
It’s October, the weather is cooling down, and pumpkins are popping up on porches everywhere. This can only mean one thing -- it’s nearly holiday season in America, and we…
Autumn in the Upstate
After a hot, rainy summer, fall has finally arrived in the Upstate. Temperatures are slowly but surely dropping and everyone is settling back into their routines after the back-to-school rush.…
Diversity in Greenville and the Upstate
During a recent chat with Wetzel’s Language Manager, Susannah, I was pleasantly struck by her account of an event she had attended a few weeks before – specifically, her positive…