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Painting Pictures: Transitioning Globally to University | Djibouti Jones
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Painting Pictures: Transitioning Globally to University. Today’s Painting Pictures. Is brought to you by Janneke Jellema, one of my favorite twitter peeps. Come to think of it, we met on Twitter, I think(? Transitioning Globally to University. I was totally unprepared. For the (reverse) culture shock that I would have. Totally unprepared for the loneliness, feeling out of place, not knowing the rules and norms, and the depression that set in. Did my fellow students or my lecturers notice the abov...I jus...
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Down with Exclamation Points!! | Djibouti Jones
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Down with Exclamation Points! I know someone who cries when I cook her waffles (yeah, you know who you are). I am the mother of someone who does exuberant tuck jumps while waving her arms in the air and cheering when her watermelon plant sprouted. I know someone else who talks so fast, and with so much conviction that each word seems to be accompanied by an invisible exclamation point. This pretty much works for professional writing. Unless I’m writing for certain websites ( here are some pieces. At firs...
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Books | Djibouti Jones
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International School of Djibouti: Registration Now OPEN! Receive my newsletter Stories from the Horn. Enter your email address. Subscribe to posts via email. Best of Djibouti Jones. 15 Things I Want to Tell My Third Culture Kids. A Letter to the Grandparents of My Third Culture Kids. 20 Things Expats Need to Stop Doing. 15 Cool Facts about Camels. When Rich Westerners Don’t Know They are Being Rich Westerners. 3 Types of Expatriates. What about Our Passport Countries? Djibouti at the Olympics.
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When Underdogs Dare to Dream | Djibouti Jones
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When Underdogs Dare to Dream. I haven’t been posting much to The Bookshelf. On Fridays lately. I’ve been reading but haven’t been blogging. Here’s a quick list of what I’m reading lately:. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Random House Reader’s Circle). Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. I loved writing this story ab...
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Men With Mustaches and the Women Married to Them | Djibouti Jones
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Men With Mustaches and the Women Married to Them. A month ago my husband shaved. Except he didn’t shave that line of hair that grows on the upper lip. You know, the place where a. To fully understand my shock, see this exclamation point and this post about exclamation points. The last time he had a mustache was in 1999 when he was a teacher at a junior high school and got tired of being asked for his hallway pass. A little facial hair lifted him out of the preteen category. But Right now mustaches seem t...
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About | Djibouti Jones
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Expatriate, raising three Third Culture Kids, writer, runner, believer, development worker. In 2003 I left Minnesota and moved to Somalia where my husband taught Physics and English at Amoud University in a northern village. Since then, I have also lived in Kenya, France, and Djibouti. We have three children who all assume they are more African than American since we have lived in the Horn of Africa almost their entire lives. I run and cook. And study languages and raise children and live in a Muslim, Af...
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Hello, Hello, Kisses, and Hugs | Djibouti Jones
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Hello, Hello, Kisses, and Hugs. Quick link: Hello World! A week of greetings…today I have a piece at A Life Overseas, basically a list of how people greet each other in various countries. Where do they ask if you have taken your bath? Where do they bow? Where do people prefer you not touch them? Click here to find out: Hello World! By Rachel Pieh Jones. August 5th, 2015. August 6, 2015 at 2:26 am. I am from Minnesota via Wisconsin Kansas and Texas and all other states. Click here to cancel reply.
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More Djibouti Jones | Djibouti Jones
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I am a contributing writer at these sites. International School of Djibouti: Registration Now OPEN! Receive my newsletter Stories from the Horn. Enter your email address. Subscribe to posts via email. Best of Djibouti Jones. 15 Things I Want to Tell My Third Culture Kids. A Letter to the Grandparents of My Third Culture Kids. 20 Things Expats Need to Stop Doing. 15 Cool Facts about Camels. When Rich Westerners Don’t Know They are Being Rich Westerners. 3 Types of Expatriates. Djibouti at the Olympics.
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Complicated Cross Cultural Greetings | Djibouti Jones
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Complicated Cross Cultural Greetings. Quick link: To Kiss or Not to Kiss? Today EthnoTraveler published my essay about kissing men, women, cheeks, lips, hands, children…. Click here to read more about greetings and about the times I’ve shard juicy smacker-oos with elderly women: To Kiss or Not to Kiss? By Rachel Pieh Jones. August 4th, 2015. Click here to cancel reply. International School of Djibouti: Registration Now OPEN! Receive my newsletter Stories from the Horn. Enter your email address. Reflect o...
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Free E-Book | Djibouti Jones
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Thirty-Four Paying Markets for Beautiful Essays. I love to write. I love to read. I love to read what you write. Many readers ask me for advice on where and how to publish essays and so I created an ebook filled with websites and links and advice. The sites I included are some I’ve been published in and some I dream of being published in and only begin to present the variety of opportunities. The websites are organized into categories:. Faith (primarily Christian and Muslim markets). The Ministry of Reco...
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