TFEM Issue 23

PINOY LIFE ABROAD

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A Filipina Across Continents: Lauren Nicole Yap’s inspiring journey from Manila to Barcelona

Barcelona-based Lauren Nicole Yap shares her journey from Manila to Barcelona, and how she found her life purpose living abroad. The world has a funny way of dismantling our best-laid plans. Three…

Community of Filipinos in Raval Barcelona
Barna Feels: Living within the Filipino community in Raval, Barcelona

What a visitng Filipino researcher learned while living with Filipinos in Raval, Barcelona, often referred to as the “silent community”. It was a cold autumn night in Raval, Barcelona. I was walking…

Oven-roasted pork Spanish-style
Bringing the Spanish taste home

Thinking of taking up culinary studies in Spain? Filipino chef Oyeen Valcos talks about studying in Le Cordon Bleu Madrid and how he brought authentic Spanish taste back home to the Philippines.…

In rural Kenya most people speak their mother tongues but Swahili bridges the gap somewhat.
Adventures in Swahili

Her broken Swahili helped expat writer Agatha Verdadero escape an angry Somalian herder demanding payment for his stolen camels. When it comes to language gaffes, my favourite is that made by President…

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