Greasy food, intellectuals, Italian bureaucracy and a welcoming community. Elisha Gay Hidalgo tells us about expat living in Bologna, Italy. It’s December in Bologna, a city located somewhere in Northern Italy. I…
A native of Aklan found herself in Auckland, New Zealand, among 72,000 Filipinos living there. She is not planning on leaving anymore. Coming to New Zealand was purely accidental. I had never…
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…
A Filipina expat teacher learns how to drink Turkish tea and discovered how the country’s culture and hospitality is anchored on it. I arrived in Turkey in the summer of 2008. It…