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Discover more about your world by living in it. Learn foreign languages through immersive study. Master new skills by going to where they do them best. Go to where you feel uncomfortable, until strangers become your friends and you begin to feel at home.
I’m called lao-wai in China. We’re called agaanib in Egypt and wazungu in East Africa. But even those we’re those things, we’re other people, and we’re ourselves.… Read More
Did you know that to say “7am” in Zanzibar, you say “one o’clock”? That’s called Swahili Time. It’s just one of many things we learned about living in Zanzibar.… Read More
The complicated politics of nation, cultural identity and religion in Israel, Palestine or whatever you want to call “this part of the world”.… Read More
Hebrew is thousands of years old and yet has evolved into a language that many use as their primary — or only — language. This is its story.… Read More
The story of the Zabaleen – “Garbage People” who have for generations been the informal backbone of Cairo’s waste management.… Read More
The conclusion of our 60 day challenge to learn Arabic in 60 days.… Read More
We learned to speak Egyptian Arabic in 60 days. See the video evidence, read how we did it and what we learned for our future challenges.… Read More
The story of how we nearly ended up living on a beachfront paradise in exchange for management skills.… Read More
Why we’ll never be truly be local foreigners in Egypt… and that’s OK.… Read More
Day 30 update of our project to learn Arabic in 60 days.… Read More