I’ve submitted an entry to a blogging competition sponsored by Expats Blog under the theme “Working Abroad”.
If you’d like to have a look and maybe leave a comment, a FB ‘like’ on the site, or even cast a vote, you can do so by going to
http://www.expatsblog.com/contests/working-abroad
My submission is titled “Let Me Take You to the Dark Side of the Moon …”
Here is a short excerpt:
“My 2-year mission: to explore a strange new land, to seek out new experiences, and to boldly go where no woman had gone before.”
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Switzerland, 2013. About the time I realized it was time to get back to sunshiny skies ...
I envisioned myself a pioneer in this arid industrial city, one of a handful of women (and definitely the only blue-eyed blonde) willing and able to permeate this sandy metropolis for the sole purpose of saying the desert dust would not prevail.
I was wearing steel-toe boots … and I was here to conquer.
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But some challenges were not quite what I’d envisioned:
I HAD TO GET PERMISSION TO WORK:...
I BECAME AN OBJECT OF LUST AND DESIRE: ...
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