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6 Ways To Crush Loneliness Abroad And Finally Feel At Home In A Foreign Land!
Living abroad isn’t always the Expat Instagram Dream. It can be lonely and overwhelming. Here’s how I turned isolation into real connections and friendships.
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It was my first New Year’s after breaking up with the person I’d moved to Ukraine for, and loneliness hit me like a bad translation: awkward, confusing, and completely out of place.
With no social media to distract me (it didn’t exist yet) and the nearest internet a cyber café miles away in central Kyiv, I was left alone with the deafening silence of my tiny apartment.
And let me tell you, silence can be louder than fireworks when you’re feeling completely alone.
So there I sat in my closet sized flat, armed with a bag of McDonald’s, the only thing that reminded me of home, and a few bottles of lukewarm local beer completed the scene.