May 2023 | Written by – Willem Van Hoorn In this edition of the blog I´d like to take a look with you at the inner workings of Dutch birthday parties. You stand a fair chance of occasionally skimming past such an event at work or study. And you may even one day find...
April 2023 | Written by – Willem Van Hoorn Often, my blog posts are about the Dutch and the Dutch culture in particular. And they explain one or another aspect of that to internationals (or ‘new locals’, if you prefer). Not this time, though. The topic of...
An International Team Dedicated to Helping Others November 2022 | Written by – Ariel Slaughter The Expat Spouses Initiative (ESI) is a social enterprise born from the personal experience of an accompanying spouse who found it difficult to professionally...
Shine a Little Light October 2022 | Written by – Willem van Hoorn If, in the last weeks, you have spent any time at all in Eindhoven during the evenings, it can barely have escaped you: the many hundreds of light objects along many streets, that together make-up the...
Building a Career in Brabant one Piece at a Time July 2022 | Written by – Ariel Slaughter Every month the ‘We are Not Alone’ Newsletter (WANA) delivers a fountain of helpful resources and information to the inboxes of thousands of internationals and Dutch...
I am busy, you know. July 2022| Written by – Willem van Hoorn I’ve mentioned it in earlier blog posts: when you talk cultural differences, you talk ‘comparison’. The characteristics of a particular culture are usually not defined in absolute terms, but in relation to...
