Resources: Possible Topics
Questions to think about
- alone / lonely: Do you travel on your own or with someone? Why? How often do you need to be alone?
- colonialism: What is your relationship to colonialism (we all have one) and how is it linked to your current situation overseas?
- connect / disconnect: How easily do you connect to people? How thorough is that connection?
- exotic: Is your definition of what is exotic shaped by Eurocentricism?
- female / male expatriate: How do you think your experience differs from those of male expatriates?
- missing mother: Do you miss your mother?
- objects: What is your relationship to objects? (i.e. what you sold to enter this lifestyle and what you have since collected? How do you store these objects?)
- power: Do you feel that you have more power in your home country or your current location?
- pre-wired: Were you pre-wired to live overseas? Did you know at an early age?
- routine: How important is routine?
- smells: What smells remind you of home?
- why leave?: Why did you leave your country of origin?
- ugly / pretty: Were you ugly in your home country and pretty in your new location or vice versa?
Categories
- alone / lonely
- colonialism
- connect / disconnect
- exotic
- female / male expatriate
- missing mother
- objects
- power
- pre-wired
- routine
- smells
- why leave?
- ugly / pretty
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