{"id":7851,"date":"2014-01-09T11:50:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T16:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=7851"},"modified":"2014-01-09T11:50:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T16:50:15","slug":"book-review-expat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=7851","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Expat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Expat-Thoughts-first-living-abroad-ebook\/dp\/B00ER6PAZS\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1389285860&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=expat\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7852\" alt=\"41nnCuv8PDL\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/41nnCuv8PDL-188x300.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/41nnCuv8PDL-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/41nnCuv8PDL.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always thought it would be a really cool adventure to live abroad for some period of time. \u00a0I love traveling and have the privilege of traveling quite a bit with both my family and my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncchristian.org\" target=\"_blank\">school<\/a>. \u00a0 I try to keep another trip on the schedule at all times. \u00a0The first book I read of 2014 was <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Expat-Thoughts-first-living-abroad-ebook\/dp\/B00ER6PAZS\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1389285860&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=expat\" target=\"_blank\">Expat!<\/a><\/em><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>This book was available for free on Kindle and the title intrigued me enough to pick it up. \u00a0It&#8217;s a super quick read&#8230;only 22 pages. \u00a0This book is full of great tips about what to do if you are living in a different country..mostly things you would encounter in the first month. \u00a0The tips are things to look for to avoid major cultural blunders \u00a0and also things that make it easier to settle in. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t actually highlight while I was reading this book, but feel confident that I will refer back to it. \u00a0This spring I have the privilege of leading a mission team to Haiti and I was glad to learn some things about the proper way to give a gift to someone that hosts you in their home in a foreign country. \u00a0There are also tons of helpful tips regarding food and drink as well as business tips that would save a lot of stress down the road.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, a great read and worth picking up if you are planning a trip out of the country anytime soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always thought it would be a really cool adventure to live abroad for some period of time. \u00a0I love traveling and have the privilege of traveling quite a bit with both my family and my school. \u00a0 I try to keep another trip on the schedule at all times. \u00a0The first book I read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-education","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}