I’m not quite sure when day one of being an expat begins. Is it that moment when you answer the question on your departure card and say you will live somewhere else for the next 12 months? When your passport is returned with the visa saying that you have the right to live in Malaysia for 2 years? When you have moved into your apartment and are no longer living out of suitcases? Or when your air freight arrives?

Or maybe it’s when you make peace with being in a different country and culture, and have a routine for the days which has moved beyond being on holiday and feeling slightly dis-orientated about how to manage without the structure of a career and a working day.

Then again – for me – it’s probably the day when I get around to setting up the blog!

There is so much to capture and make sense of, that I’m hoping that writing about it will both help me create a writing routine but also keep me connected with the things I am passionate about online.