About Culturally Discombobulated
Culturally Discombobulated is just what the internet needed – another navel-gazing blog. It’s my struggle with dealing with culture shock in the land of iHops and Dennys. Yep, it’s my letters from and to America, if you like. Just imagine Alistair Cooke without the charm, talent and contacts and you’ve pretty much got the gist of it.
Yeah, I know it's the same prattish pose that Richard Littlejohn and Piers Morgan do on their book covers. Mea Culpa
I’ll be honest, there’s no compelling reason why you or anyone else should read this blog, but you may be curious about why I’ve started it.
You see, I was born and raised in a particular place. But when fully grown and mature, I left this particular place to go to another place. Now that second place was nice, I liked it. It was, I would like to assure you, a very nice place indeed. But even though this second place was nice, there was a third place, which was a much bigger place, that was often in my thoughts. Now this third place was where I was pretty certain I was going to end up living – and I did. And it was great, and it was exciting, and I loved it, and place-wise, I thought I was done. I had found my place and I was very much comfortable with it and in it. But then, as people have a habit of doing in places, I met someone. She lived in the same place as me, this comfortably exciting place, but she was originally from a completely different place. And her original place was not like my original place where you could just hop on a bus or a train and get there in a few hours. No, she was from one of those places where you needed a passport and a visa and a plane ticket to get there. It was all very complicated. And for reasons too dull and too personal for this blog we ended up moving to this place of hers, or near enough to it. Of course, we didn’t stay there. Oh no, we then had to go to another place that was far, far away from either of our original places. That was confusing, but we weren’t at that place for long. It was just a temporary sort of place for us; a holding-pen kind of place. And now we’re in yet another place, a place I never thought I’d be, a place that isn’t very exciting and that constantly leaves me confused. An archetypal American sort of place. A place that makes me feel…well, out-of-place. So, yeah, I’m a little turned around by it all. I guess what I’m saying – in an extremely roundabout way – is that this is another expat-struggling-with-being-an-expat type blog.
You crack me up
Kat Richter
September 11, 2010 at 9:01 am
Thanks, Kat. Really appreciate that.
awindram
September 11, 2010 at 4:10 pm
No one has made me laugh at myself and our ways so much! Fun blog!
honnah
September 13, 2010 at 6:48 am
Thank you very much, Honnah!
awindram
September 13, 2010 at 12:17 pm
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October 10, 2010 at 8:54 am
So from that description I would guess you live in Disney World.
Oh, and there is a compelling reason why this blog is in my reader: it’s good reading.
Michelloui | The American Resident
June 9, 2011 at 9:48 am
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Erika Martin
September 14, 2011 at 1:38 am
Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your blog. You have a funny, easy-going style that is like a good ole chin-wag over a pint in a British pub! To show my appreciation I wanted to pass on the Versatile Blogger award to you.
Congratulations, and here is a link to my post about the award if you are interested…
http://expatlogue.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/versatile-me/
expatlogue
October 18, 2011 at 8:22 am
I nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award. You can see it at http://dyingbraincells.wordpress.com/
Jumping in Mud Puddles
February 5, 2012 at 5:49 am
Ann-toe-knee,
I couldn’t find a regular email address, but thought you might want to know this, so here goes:
I subscribe to your blog posts by email. When I received the last one, I clicked on the title which should lead me to the post on the actual blog (which is nicer to read than the email version) but instead of getting to your blog I got the dreaded 404 error Page Not Found page. The same happened when I clicked on the comment box in the email version. Clearly this is not good, so thought I’d let you know.
(I found you here, of course, by putting you blog url in my browser.)
Now you can go ahead an delete this comment
Miss Footloose | Life in the Expat Lane
March 5, 2012 at 3:29 am
Thanks for that. Did the latest one come through okay? It came through fine to my email address and when I pressed the link brought me to the web page. If it’s more than a one-off and this latest one was a problem I’ll flag it to wordpress as it’s probably gremlins on their end.
awindram
March 6, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Yes, your Cadbury eggs made it just fine
Strange how these things happen sometimes!
Miss Footloose | Life in the Expat Lane
March 6, 2012 at 8:01 pm