MyExpatConfessions is all about an expatriate worker’s life in Frankfurt, Germany.
All AnP wanted was to live independently and further her career. However, long before her 5-year work permit as an expatriate in Germany expired, she had it nullified. Instead, she received a Residence Permit because what should have been a short-term assignment became a long-term commitment when she got engaged to a local.
PINAYexpat AnP got married, had two sons and has since stayed in Frankfurt, Germany. Her career has taken off and she now crunches numbers for the European headquarters of a big Japanese company in Frankfurt.
AnP and her family loves the Philippines, warts and all. Not satisfied with their 2x a year visits to the Philippines, they have decided that they want more. So they are all repatriating in 2009.
What others have said AnP…
Conrado de Quiros, Inquirer:
“Of course I have met people like Atienza-Petri and read letters from expatriates like her. Exile has made them more passionate about the country of their birth. At least it has made them look at goods with a more dispassionate eye, weighing them for their innate merits than their claims to ’status.’ But though they are many, they are the exception, not the rule.”
“Melissa is our proud balikbayan. She is our honest-to-goodness Pinay who is very proud to be one. Pilipinas, I think, is her favorite word. She loves her family. She loves her friends (moi included). Oh, and mind you, she can speak straight Tagalog. Yep, not Taglish nor Gerlog (huh, German Tagalog). And, she loves having a new phone each Christmas she comes home. I wonder who she gets her phone from.”