Dear Universe, all powers at play, and all residents thinking about selling their homes in Nanaimo, Please send us a home to buy! The house in the above image is going for 1 million Canadian dollars in Victoria, BC Canada… but you could probably say that about most Provincial capitals across Canada! I have a…
These are the ramblings of me trying to figure it all out. It has been a long while since I posted; been taking time getting my head around things. When I close my eyes and imagine the future, where we will buy a home, what life will look like, honestly, I am too tired to…
What is a community? According to Google, a community is a social unit with similarities such as norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place being in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, town, or neighbourhood) or in virtual space through communication platforms. It seems my journey, no matter where I…
Saturday first thing in the morning, the instant we got Angelina’s negative PCR test results, we were already packed and ready to go to Victoria for the day! We drove the 1h23 minutes south towards the province’s capital city. We first stopped off in Duncan, my hometown, to see our family house. It was strange…
These last two weeks went by so fast. With Angelina in quarantine, we really did not want to go to the lakes, swim in the ocean or anything really fun until she got out. Like a prison sentence for the entire family. Happy news, she will be out tomorrow! So the first thing we are…
Food. How we taste and smell things can transport us back in time, making us feel old memories. We are so connected to what we eat on so many different levels, it is hard to sort out if it is the memory we are after or the actual food. Yesterday I dropped off Alfonz and…
“Altruism is the principle and moral practice of concern for happiness of other human beings or other animals, resulting in a quality of life both material and spiritual. In the last 48 hour I felt more love, respect and kindness from perfect strangers than I have in the last ten years combined. Where ever we…
I guess it is time to change the blog’s name from “My Expat Life” to “My New Island Life” because I am officially not an expat anymore! It is funny, some actually believed I should change the name when we moved to Hungary, saying I was not an expat anymore, however I had never lived…
Yesterday I folded up all my clothes and neatly placed my worldly belongings into two very large suitcases, one carry on bag and a large purse. When I look at it I find it strange how small a life can be reduced to. What makes a person a person; if it is stuff I have…
The story of Elvis has been going on a while now. A little kitten saved from certain death, rescued by a six-year-old girl on the other side of a fence. Angelina and Elvis could be a children’s book, a sentiment to how much we love animals. It went on 9-years, five-years in southern France where…