“Gooday” For Expat Kids In Australia
Relocating your family to Australia could be an advantage, specially for your children, as the Land Down Under gets the “up” on a survey, and was voted the world’s best country to bring up children by expatriates parents working in Australia.
“Australia had the largest proportion of expat parents who reported an improvement in the quality of family life compared with their original homes, while almost half (45 percent) said moving to the UK could have a negative effect.”
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The Expat Vote
With a major Dutch election looming politicians are reaching out to Dutch expats for votes. Local Dutch politicians have seen a decline in voting and many think Dutch expats are who could determine the vote. “Just one week before voters head to polling stations around the country to vote in local elections, politicians from the main parties are busy vying for the expat vote. With voting numbers declining over the years and only 58% of the electorate casting their votes in 2006, expat vote will be crucial in some areas. According to the national statistics office CBS some 453,000 non-Dutch nationals can take part in next week’s vote, but traditionally many have felt detached and excluded from the Dutch political system.”
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Bilingual Expat Toddlers
Many expat parents whose children grow up in bilingual house holds want their toddlers to begin speaking both languages at the same time. For the toddlers this isn’t always the case. “Every pediatrician knows the frustration of trying to quantify the speech and language skills of a screaming toddler. How many words can he say? Can she put two or more words together into a sentence? Can people besides you understand him when he talks? Questions like these, put to the parents, are the quick and somewhat crude yardsticks we must use. Crude or not, the assessment is crucial: the earlier it is made, the earlier the speech-delayed child can get some help, and the earlier the help, the better the prospects.”
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Beijing City International School
Are you moving to China? Is your child ready for a new school? Beijing City International School recently achieved joint accreditation from the Council of International Schools (CIS) and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). Read more from ExpatFinder 
Stamford International School
April 1 st, 2009 – Singapore – Stamford American International School (SAIS), the first international school to offer the American curriculum enriched by an International Accredited curriculum, is launching a Scholarship worth up to S$400,000 *. Designed to assist an academically-gifted student facing economic hardship, the Stamford American International School “Foundation Scholarship” will commemorate the opening of the school in August 2009 and run for the duration of the student’s stay at the school. Read more from ExpatFinder
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Where In the World Is Santa Claus
With Christmas just a few days away. Expat parents and children can track Santa’s last minute movements. The best part about tracking Santa is that they system is offered in seven languages.
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Expat Children Believe In Santa
We are fast approaching that magical day were once a year expat children wake to find Santa has delivered gifts no matter where they are. Living abroad it seems helps expat children believe just a little bit longer than their country parts at home. “My daughter believed in Santa (and the tooth fairy) until she was ten. I found that in most expat families that have “Santa,” all the expat kids continue to believe in him until much older ages than the kids back home. I have hardly heard of anyone whose children stopped believing in Santa before the ages of eight, or even nine. … These lies include how Santa can arrive when there is no chimney in the house (we said he slid under the crack in the door, where there was no threshhold); or how Santa can arrive for them, but not for any other children in the culture (we said he didn’t come to the Muslim children because they didn’t “believe” in him). When I was a teacher, and Muslim children said they didn’t believe Santa came to our house, I always answered, “Well, I don’t know what happens in your house, but this is what happens in our house.” In our house, my husband and I each got a gift from Santa, as well.”
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Expats In the US Look For Jobs Elsewhere
Expat in the US are looking for opportunity else where as unemployment rises to 10% in the US. An HSBC survey says that about 23% of foreign nationals are considering relocating or returning home. “HSBC Bank International’s 2009 Expat Explorer survey found that 23% of U.S.-based expats are considering returning home, compared with 15% elsewhere in the world. The most frequently cited reason was increasingly limited career prospects, according to the survey of more than 3,100 expats, defined as anyone over 18 living outside their country of origin. … Siew Kiang Ng, executive director of the alliance, says New Yorkers in particular are very interested in opportunities back home. “They are finding it difficult to secure a job, and there were many senior talent laid off,” she says. She says that industries such as financial services, research and health care are still thriving on the island nation, where the overall unemployment rate is just 3.4%.(Singapore)”
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Marrakech a City of Splendor for Expats
A generation ago Marrakech was the gem city from George Orwell to Winston Churchill. The city greets expats and travelers with a splendid view of the past through it architecture and grandeur of modernity. “This new generation of expatriates and travelers has helped establish Marrakech’s status as the most sought after and stylish destination in all of North Africa. The growing influx of Europeans and Americans into Marrakech and Morocco is all the more impressive given that this Islamic kingdom suffered al Qaeda inspired suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003 and 2007. Apart from the mystique and excitement of the Medina, there are several other reasons that explain the growing appeal of Marrakech: It is the most accessible exotic destination for European travelers, reachable in little more than three hours by plane; it has a variety of accommodations ranging from €50 riads to luxurious hotels and private villas in the Palmeraie that can cost €15,000 a week; and it offers a carefree lifestyle with perfect winter weather, where foreigners can own property relatively easily.”
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Motherhood as an Expat
Motherhood can be difficult enough in ones own home country, but as expats motherhood can present another set of challenges. A Malaysian expat mother describes her journey through grappling with home sickness, to choosing what language her children would be schooled in. “The happiness was indescribable but then, whether we liked it or not, there were bound to be conflicts. I am Malaysian and was brought up in Malay society with the Malay way of life. My husband, on the other hand, is a Turk, brought up in a Turkish society with the Kayseri way on his mother’s side and the Rumelian way on his father’s side. We are two people who were brought up in two different cultures; there are so many differences in our cultural backgrounds. What were we as parents supposed to do? There were so many conflicts. We had to find a common ground. But where to start?”
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