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Living Abroad for a Year
Etienne Garbugli
Product Design & Marketing Consultant
What I learned and how it changed me
3. I moved to
Singapore in
July 2011
I moved to
Beijing in
January
2011
I arrived in
Hong Kong
in October
2010
I moved back to
Canada in
October 2011
Note: The plane
probably doesn’t go
in this direction. :)
5. To travel
To evaluate if where I was born is where I wanted to live
To take a step back and discover what I want to do
To come up with a great business idea
To work on myself
To take some distance
To discover and understand another culture
To get some experience working abroad
To learn
To experience life somewhere else
To meet people
15. But, sense of humor & metaphors
can easily be misunderstood
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16. You soon realize that being
abroad changes your perspective
of where you come from
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18. We don’t change too much when
travelling but, things change
even less back home
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19. You’ll probably miss your friends
and family; it’s much harder to
center your life without them
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20. But, having things or people
waiting for you somewhere else
makes it easy to give up
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23. And you realize that it’s hard to
have time AND money to travel
no matter where you are
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24. AND that, being close to a
destination does not necessarily
mean you’ll actually get to see it
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25. Abroad, the most dangerous
thing is the downward spiral;
when everything starts to suck
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26. It can be frustrating dealing with
and understanding people from
another culture but, people are
rarely racist
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29. Which doesn’t mean that you’ll
automatically be friends with
people from your home culture
(many seem to think so)
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31. Moving away is not about having
fears or not; it’s about how well
you face your fears…
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32. Life is more flexible than we think;
with enough work, almost
everything in life can be changed
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33. Thank you.
Etienne Garbugli
Product Design Consultant
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