Apr 23, 2018 | Europe, Expats - stories from out there, Madrid, Spain
Adriana is 23 years old and has been studying in Madrid for 10 months. She didn’t go to Madrid to study because she had a special appeal to the city, since she didn’t even know it well, but because she found a master’s program that she found...
Sep 14, 2017 | Asia, Expats - stories from out there, Nepal
Vera is an architect, she is 25 years old and lived in Patan, Nepal for 4 months in 2016. Her text is exciting, but nothing better than telling us why she went to this country, which is rarely in the top of destinations to visit from the recurring traveler. It may be...
Sep 7, 2017 | Belgium, Europe, Expats - stories from out there
Catarina is an architect, and we were classmates for only two years out of the five our course has. This is because I went to Italy in our third year and she went to Ghent, Belgium in the 4th, where she then decided to end the course, living there, therefore, during 2...
Aug 31, 2017 | Denmark, Europe, Expats - stories from out there
Mafalda is 23 years old and loves our country more than anything. But she soon realized that the world and the life she wanted included much more than what she had in Lisbon. She always had a dream to travel, to learn different things and, especially, to live abroad...
Aug 24, 2017 | Europe, Expats - stories from out there, Netherlands, Rotterdam
Isadora is 24 years old and finished this year a master’s degree in Interior Architecture at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Netherlands. She has been living in the Netherlands for almost 3 years, and the reason she decided to go abroad was because she...
Aug 10, 2017 | Africa, Expats - stories from out there, Maputo, Mozambique
Gonçalo is 27 years old, is IT Manager and went to Maputo with his girlfriend, Débora, five years ago. He says he decided to leave Portugal for the professional challenge because in our country, at the technological level, there is very little to do, unlike Mozambique...
Aug 3, 2017 | America, Chicago, Expats - stories from out there, United States of America
Mónica is 19 years old, is a cinema student and went to the United States with AFS, still in high school, for 10 months because after the 11th grade she felt she needed to broaden her horizons and live a new experience to learn more about the world and herself. In the...
Jul 27, 2017 | Asia, Expats - stories from out there, Japan, Tokyo
Inês is 22 years old (almost 23, next Monday), is an architecture student and has been in Tokyo for nine months, through an exchange program with the University of Tokyo, subsidized by the Japanese government to do the last year of the master’s. She decided to...
Jul 20, 2017 | Cambridge, Europe, Expats - stories from out there, United Kingdom
Inês is 24 years old and was in Cambridge a little over a year, between 2015 and 2016, to continue her studies in the field of Arts and to develop her artistic practice in a different, challenging and valuing environment. Meanwhile, she returned to Portugal where, in...
Jul 13, 2017 | America, Expats - stories from out there, New York, United States of America
Mariana is 26 years old and was living in New York for 6 months in 2015 with Inov Contacto program as a Brand Ambassador for a wine distribution company. While she was there I had the opportunity to visit her and she accompanied me through Central Park and Guggenheim!...
Jul 6, 2017 | Accra, Africa, Expats - stories from out there, Ghana
Bruno is a civil engineer, is 44 years old and he knows me since I was born. He left Portugal 7 years ago due to the economic crisis, even stronger in the building sector, but he is living in Ghana just since last October. Before that he lived in Cabo Verde for more...
Jun 29, 2017 | Asia, Cambodia, Expats - stories from out there
Daniel is 37 years old and has lived in Phnom Pehn for 3 years, after being there volunteering for six months in 2011, an experience he loved, one of the reasons that made him want to return. He works as a university professor and academic advisor in the capital of...
