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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.
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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 3 December, 2009Tackling the local language is all about attitude—well that and a lot of hard work. Catherine Nelson-Pollard gives us a good old-fashioned pep talk. And some insight into why it is that some people never seem to learn their accent no matter how well they know a second (or third or fifth) language.
Thursday, 26 November, 2009Catherine Nelson Pollard discusses the importance of learning languages as a way to integrate in a new country or linguistic region.
Thursday, 19 November, 2009Catherine Nelson-Pollard admits that the inefficiency of customers bagging their own groceries still drives her batty. She and Susan Flory invite expat author Margaret Oertig-Davidson back to talk about the importance of self-reliance in Swiss culture.
Thursday, 29 October, 2009Susan Flory and Catherine Nelson-Pollard invite expat author Margaret Oertig-Davidson to talk about her book—and how the peach and the coconut can help you understand the Swiss social structure.
Thursday, 22 October, 2009Catherine Nelson-Pollard asks whether all expats are treated equally, regardless of race.
Thursday, 15 October, 2009Catherine Nelson Pollard discusses how expats can improve their chances of integrating into their new community by adapting the social etiquette learned at home.
Thursday, 8 October, 2009Life as a trailing spouse can be difficult, and sometimes even more so for men because a lot of the clubs tend to be international women’s clubs. Catherine Nelson-Pollard and one man living the life offer their advice.
Thursday, 1 October, 2009Catherine Nelson-Pollard and Conor Lennon are joined by psychologist Paul Luedtke for a discussion around the theme of ’cultural adaptation’
Thursday, 24 September, 2009Catherine Nelson-Pollard is joined by integration expert Paul Luedtke for a discussion of the often frustrating process by which expatriates can eventually embed themselves within a culture.
Expat Life: Au pairs are expats too
Thursday, 17 September, 2009Catherine Nelson-Pollard is joined by Becky and Paul Luedtke, who run a Nyon-based program to help au pairs adjust to life in Switzerland.
Thursday, 17 September, 2009Catherine Nelson-Pollard is joined by Becky and Paul Luedtke, who run a Nyon-based program to help au pairs adjust to life in Switzerland.
