I spent some of the best years of my life living overseas, but slowly the yearning for my homeland crept in.
I spent some of the best years of my life living overseas. New country, new culture – everything all new. It was exciting to embark on a new life chapter, make a fresh start and be whoever I wanted.
I miss the cobblestone streets of Estonia’s capital Tallinn, and feeling like I was a Disney princess wandering its enchanting medieval Old Town. I crave its elk pies and Saku beer. Paris – well, it’s the carbs I long for. I miss my almost daily run to the boulangerie to practice basic Frenchand discover a world of bread and patisserie treats that would do little for my desired Euro summer bod.
I lived in a tiny village in Central Uganda for eight months in my mid-20s. The village was so small that even Ugandans hadn’t heard of it and would tell me “there is no such place”. But such a place did exist, and while we didn’t have electricity or running water, we had the sweetest, juiciest pineapples and mangoes I’ve ever tasted. In mango season, children would arrive at my back door with armfuls of them. There was one woman in the village who would sit on her raffia mat selling pineapples.
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