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Expat Life
Thursdays at 6:10 pm during The Wrap
Catherine Nelson-Pollard shares her experience of living as an expat, offering tips and advice on how to make Switzerland your very own home away from home.
Expat Life: Getting into university back home
Thursday, 11 March, 2010What steps can teenagers educated in Switzerland—and their parents—take to help ensure they’re accepted into universities in North America or the UK? WRS’s Susan Flory and Catherine Nelson-Pollard bring on some expert help:
Thursday, 11 March, 2010What steps can teenagers educated in Switzerland—and their parents—take to help ensure they’re accepted into universities in North America or the UK? WRS’s Susan Flory and Catherine Nelson-Pollard bring on some expert help:
Expat Life: Relocating tips from a pro
Thursday, 25 February, 2010Catherine Nelson-Pollard invites back François Enzler from Network Relocation for more advice on moving well:
Thursday, 25 February, 2010Catherine Nelson-Pollard invites back François Enzler from Network Relocation for more advice on moving well:
Expat Life: Relocating with the pros
Thursday, 18 February, 2010Catherine Nelson-Pollard invites François Enzler from Network Relocation to tell us what are the major concerns of expats coming and going:
Thursday, 18 February, 2010Catherine Nelson-Pollard invites François Enzler from Network Relocation to tell us what are the major concerns of expats coming and going:
Expat Life: Help for international mums (and dads)
Thursday, 11 February, 2010Conor Lennon and Catherine Nelson Pollard invite Mamizeit co-founder Anne Monstad to talk about her website, an e-zine for international moms in Switzerland:
Thursday, 11 February, 2010Conor Lennon and Catherine Nelson Pollard invite Mamizeit co-founder Anne Monstad to talk about her website, an e-zine for international moms in Switzerland:
Expat Life: Advice from your fellow expatriates
Thursday, 4 February, 2010Catherine Nelson-Pollard solicits tips and hints about living in Switzerland from the audience:
Thursday, 4 February, 2010Catherine Nelson-Pollard solicits tips and hints about living in Switzerland from the audience:
Expat Life: Volunteer opportunities abound
Thursday, 28 January, 2010There are plenty of ways to integrate, but one of the best—and most rewarding—can be giving your time to a group or activity you care about. Catherine Nelson-Pollard brings us one expat who’s been doing just that and has advice on where to start:
Thursday, 28 January, 2010There are plenty of ways to integrate, but one of the best—and most rewarding—can be giving your time to a group or activity you care about. Catherine Nelson-Pollard brings us one expat who’s been doing just that and has advice on where to start:
Expat Life: New country, new you?
Thursday, 21 January, 2010A lot of expats who arrive in a new country find that they need to diversify or even reinvent themselves professionally. Catherine Nelson-Pollard says the key is staying open to all kinds of options:
Thursday, 21 January, 2010A lot of expats who arrive in a new country find that they need to diversify or even reinvent themselves professionally. Catherine Nelson-Pollard says the key is staying open to all kinds of options:
Expat Life: Soundtrack from a life abroad
Thursday, 24 December, 2009There wasn’t much opportunity to hear world music growing up in a small Yorkshire village in England in the ’60s. If you were lucky you could pick up a crackly pirate station on a transistor radio, but on the whole, world music was thin on the ground and on the airwaves. “Crossing borders” for us simply meant a trip to Lancashire.
Thursday, 24 December, 2009There wasn’t much opportunity to hear world music growing up in a small Yorkshire village in England in the ’60s. If you were lucky you could pick up a crackly pirate station on a transistor radio, but on the whole, world music was thin on the ground and on the airwaves. “Crossing borders” for us simply meant a trip to Lancashire.
Expat Life: Gifts that help you integrate
Thursday, 17 December, 2009Still have some names to cross off your holiday shopping list? Catherine Nelson-Pollard joins us this week bearing great gifts for expats:
Thursday, 17 December, 2009Still have some names to cross off your holiday shopping list? Catherine Nelson-Pollard joins us this week bearing great gifts for expats:
Expat Life: Building your own friend network
Thursday, 10 December, 2009Not every city in Switzerland has the ready-made support networks that expats in Geneva and Zurich enjoy. So how do you find like-minded friends when fellow expats are harder to track down? One women in Fribourg has it figured out. She’s built a popular women’s group there in under six months. Susan Flory and Catherine Nelson-Pollard invite Kerri Dann to tell us how she did it.
Thursday, 10 December, 2009Not every city in Switzerland has the ready-made support networks that expats in Geneva and Zurich enjoy. So how do you find like-minded friends when fellow expats are harder to track down? One women in Fribourg has it figured out. She’s built a popular women’s group there in under six months. Susan Flory and Catherine Nelson-Pollard invite Kerri Dann to tell us how she did it.
