adapt - the content Expat
key quality required to become an expat is content to have ability and openness to adapt [
As people, we have to adapt a little all the time; economics, children, health problems, marital problems, aging parents, etc., all teach us that life does not always go the way we may have expected. Our strict views on parenting become almost unrecognizable when there's a tenacious two-year tugging your pajamas who want a lollipop at seven in the morning and your strong opinions of your own tenacity grow dark when you are unpacking said lollipop 7 10 and hand. Romantic ideas of lifestyle and life choices go out the window when the recession hit and "life sucks" is the new mantra.
So if life is the beginner's stage adaptation, migration is certainly the intermediate level. With all the usual curveballs that life throws our way, you must learn to adapt to a new country, an unfamiliar environment, and a new lifestyle and learn to coexist with very different backgrounds to your own people. And if emigration is the intermediate level and emigration in Jakarta, Indonesia, is the advanced course. (It would be desirable that you complete at least one year of intermediate level before enrollment in advanced courses.)
A week in the life in Jakarta and to date all aspects of my previous life is completely upset, having just become accustomed to the strict ways of Abu Dhabi and the life of the security in the comfort of an expatriate bubble five-star hotels to three star prices and houses three stars to five star price. A life almost copy of "monkey see, monkey do" that most expatriates live the same life, doing the same thing, in Arab society / west manufactured. Thus, the plant in Abu Dhabi or Dubai or Doha is easy; just do what everyone But here in Jakarta, there is no semblance of life made;. the biggest change is that as an expatriate, you join a community, a city and a . culture that is established Indonesians have their own culture, their own industry and the city of Jakarta lives and breathes its own air - although polluted While there are many expatriates in Jakarta, the influence of Indonesian culture is not diluted. and be an expatriate in Jakarta, you are exposed to this culture every day, and it is the pursuit of advanced adaptation.
in a week, I'm a pilot, because " expatriates do not drive, "a statement to be accepted rather than challenged. I have a daughter because it comes with the house and to excuse her would see her family hunger. Here are two things that I said I would never do, three if you count the hungry. I have a medicine cabinet as the reserve Sam McCauley because pollution is such that getting a disease is more "when" than "if." Brush our teeth with bottled water. The equatorial climate is such that you spend morning cover from the hot sun, but by afternoon, torrential rain creates water currents flowing in the mucky streets. Dinner at a local restaurant could be with the dogs and cats (live) crawling around under the table. KFC's a band playing on a Friday and Saturday night. The sight of an open sewer along a street is more popular than the trash. A pint of local beer, Bintang costs less than two euros a bar and a bottle of wine at the supermarket costs € 35. The old Irish custom of frequent power bar is back, but in many (bars, not the Irish people ) secular prostitution and exploitation of the new age live companionably side by side.
In addition to the inconvenience of finding it difficult to enjoy my coffee take in the passenger seat I pass some of the first scenes of poverty I witnessed - given my Voyage to date has been limited to the Canary, New York and Dubai - Jakarta is a home; it is everything you want and everything you do not want all rolled into one big ball.