What to do when you graduate from your MBA in the middle of winter and want to celebrate? Take an adventure trip to Lapland!

2020-2021 was our second academic year living in South Korea. I’ve renewed my contract, and we’re about to start our third year. It has been quite the ride with Covid-19 protocols dominating daily life. The school year was spent volleying between in-person, hybrid, and virtual learning. The Korean government allowed students up to Grade 2, Read More

In the past decade, I’ve lived in the United States, Vietnam, India, and now South Korea. As you can tell from the blog entry dates, I wrote once on ExpatHeather.com when we first arrived in July 2019, and then the blog went on hiatus as we settled into a new school, new job, and, Read More

We have made the move! After an amazing summer vacation in Europe and the US, we were ready to head to Korea to get settled in our new home and explore the area. It has been a week, and we have felt completely welcomed and taken care of by the KIS community. Tweet

South Korea! After two years in Mumbai, we will be moving to Korea in summer 2019! I’ve accepted an exciting position as Applied Learning Coordinator at Korea International School. While we have loved our time in India, the location of the school has made it challenging to access all that Mumbai has to offer., Read More

Moving to India, as a single mom with two young children, has been one of the most exhausting, exhilarating, stressful, chaotic, and simultaneously magnificent times of my life. It’s been 410 days since I landed in Mumbai as a expatriate resident, and wow, it has been quite the rollercoaster ride! Tweet

We recently did a family photo shoot in Saigon with Michelle Seltzer of Green Gate Photography. I loved the newborn photos Michelle did for us when Arianne was born here in Vietnam, but that was three years ago! I thought the photos of our last year in Vietnam would be a nice momento for, Read More

In 2016, I was so busy learning how to live that I spent very little time blogging! 2016 was less about travel and exploration and more about challenging myself and setting a course for the future. As my kids have gotten older, I’ve gotten relatively less sleep deprived and I’ve started to cherish their, Read More

In September 2016, my two children and I moved from our lovely garden house off Nguyen Thi Dinh to a two-bedroom apartment at Lexington Residence. Lexington is a Novaland luxury apartment complex located off Mai Chi Tho Highway, on the An Phu side of District 2 in Ho Chi Minh City. It’s fairly new, Read More