We’re celebrating our first ☘️St. Patrick’s Day ☘️here in Abuja 😆!! For years, #sircubiclehands couldn’t figure out why he indulged in sounds from Africa, the Caribbean, and Ireland 🇮🇪 !! It wasn’t until the months leading up to our departure for Abuja, that he discovered a few surprises tucked into his DNA estimate - quite a bit of Nigerian ethnicity, with flavor profiles of Irish & Italian ☺️!
In all of our transitions to life in different countries, Culture Shock has never looked like this before! Especially since he doesn’t know of any relative with direct ties to Nigeria or Ireland for that matter!
Where are we on the Culture Shock curve!? 🤔 Hmmm, at the moment it seems like it is all happening at once 😂, but give it take a few more months, we hope to pinpoint it better!
We do know that laughter is therapy…and a January 10, 2022 a letter by @franklin.habit PERFECTLY depicts the joys of settling in. Please give it a read! We instantly connected with him and his experience. And we’re certain many of you will, too 🙂!We’ll drop the link in the comments section!
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One of the themes we’re learning about here is called UBUNTU - “I am because we are” in the kid bit form of understanding 😅.
One of the gems of not only traveling but also living abroad, is to learn how a culture or community cares for each other! We adopt those into our style of hospitality along the way 😊!
On this past Valentine’s Day, as a class project, we learned about “UBUNTU” and collected items for donation to our community.
We have to give #ladysunshine🌻 credit here. It only took her 3 weeks to finally part with the items in this vid, where it’s been 15 years for #sircubiclehands to let go a couple of aloha shirts 😆! Sigh, where is @mariekondo when you need her! “Chotto Taskute Kudasaiii” 😃
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