Alix, 38
Fascinating Expat Mums
by Agnes
2y ago
Facts Alix is a mum of three children who is from England but was raised in two cultures as her dad is English and her mum is French.  She moved four times already and really appreciates living in Norway now! Alix does not think that she will stay in Stavanger forever, but she would love to stay a couple of more years. Alix is a geophysicist but she is establishing her embroidery business more and more these days and is selling her work around the whole world!  Childhood and Youth Alix spent her childhood and youth in the UK with her parents and siblings. The family was used to trave ..read more
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Jessica, 36
Fascinating Expat Mums
by Agnes
2y ago
Facts Jessica is a mum of three children, who is from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and has moved countries twice so far. Before she became an expat, she was working in the hospitality industry. At the moment, Jessica is looking forward to getting to know her next destination, as she knows that her time in Stavanger is coming to an end shortly. It was a few days after I got to know Nurul (from my last story), that she had introduced me to “another lovely Malaysian lady” and since then, Jessica had brightened up my mood a lot of times with her fun personality! Early life Jessica grew up in Kuala Lum ..read more
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Nurul, 37
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by Agnes
2y ago
Facts Nurul is a mum of two children who was born in Kuala Lumpur and already moved around the whole of Malaysia when she was a child/ young adult. She has moved countries twice so far, but she knows that she will move again at some point. Nurul worked for the government of Malaysia back home and is eager to return to her job soon, as she went through an unbelievable application process to get that job in the first place! How I met Nurul I will always remember Nurul as the first expat to welcome my family and me in our new situation in a very warm way! School had only just started, we had only ..read more
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Daniela, 46
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by Agnes
2y ago
Facts Daniela is a mum of two daughters who is from the beautiful city Foggia in a region in Italy called Puglia. Daniela moved countries only once so far, but since traveling is in her blood, she has been to a lot of countries already and her big dream is to move to England and live there forever Although in her last profession, Daniela was a baker owning her own bakery, she did try out a whole range of jobs before that! Early years Daniela spent all her childhood and youth in the picturesque region of Puglia and only left for another region of Italy to start her studies of language and forei ..read more
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Amanda, 38
Fascinating Expat Mums
by Agnes
2y ago
Facts Amanda is a mum of two children and she is from Jakarta in Indonesia. Although Amanda moved countries only once so far and has been living in Stavanger for over nine years now, I still count her to the expat community. Back in Indonesia, she was working in marketing and is currently polishing up her Norwegian to find a job in the marketing/logistics field in Stavanger. About us Amanda is one of the mums in the expat community, which I know for the longest time. When my family and I moved to Stavanger, my younger son had a rough time in preschool as he did not know the language nor the pe ..read more
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Carmen, 37
Fascinating Expat Mums
by Agnes
2y ago
Facts Carmen was born in Spain and spent the first part of her life in her hometown Murcia until she was 20. She is a mum to two children and works in the oil and gas industry. Until now, Carmen moved countries four times and she can imagine to move again. Carmen is another mum I got to know through my son’s Spanish football friends in his year group in school. Normal life Carmen used to live a rather “normal” life. She spent her childhood and youth in Murcia and then started to study physics at her home town’s university. The last two years of her studies she spent in Madrid, well aware of th ..read more
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Ivon, 37
Fascinating Expat Mums
by Agnes
2y ago
Some facts… Ivon is a mum of two children, who was born in Colombia. She works as a drilling engineer and has moved countries four times so far. Her last move was a couple of weeks ago and I just made it to talk to her about her life before she left Norway. I got to know Ivon about two years ago, when she invited my son to her son’s birthday party. Somehow my son was really good friends with all the Spanish speaking football boys in his year. I remember feeling a bit funny in between of all the Spanish speaking parents and only my son and another boy not being or speaking Spanish at all! Colom ..read more
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Alison, 42
Fascinating Expat Mums
by Agnes
2y ago
Facts Alison is a mum of two children from Kent in England. She spent most of her life in the UK, until she met her future husband. She worked hard to be a solicitor, but in the end gave up on her own career to accompany her husband and travel the world. Alison has already moved countries four times and is now awaiting her next destination. I got to know Alison two years ago. Although our children are in the same school, our paths did not cross until we both volunteered to take over the school’s second-hand uniform shop.  In the time we spent together selling uniforms I got to know h ..read more
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Tanya, 36
Fascinating Expat Mums
by Agnes
2y ago
A few facts Tanya is a mum of four boys who spent her childhood and youth near Lviv in the Ukraine. She studied economics in Lviv and co-founded a company for car components where she worked in logistics. Tanya moved countries twice so far and hopes to spend another summer in Stavanger. I have heard about Tanya even before I knew who she was or how she looked like! It turned out that we had a common German friend who, about two years ago, was spending some time in Stavanger for work. When I met up with that common friend, she told me that her friend’s children just joined the same school as my ..read more
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Chiara, 40
Fascinating Expat Mums
by Agnes
2y ago
Some facts… Chiara is a mum of two children and she is an Interpreter and Translator for German and English. She is from a little village in Italy and she moved countries twice so far. At the moment, Chiara waits for her husband’s work decision, to know where they will send them next in summer. When I met Chiara, she was pregnant. We knew each other, but we were not close. About a year ago we got closer and I made her join me in teaching the religious education class in church. The journey begins As a lot of expat stories do, in the beginning Chiara’s life looked a bit different from how it tu ..read more
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