When You Can't Return Home
Mar 30, 2020 11:22:55 AM Sarah Rymer Hope, Life, Living Overseas, Tips, Lebanon, Crisis
We had just prepared our letter to loved ones in America. Corona is spreading everywhere, I wrote, but we are on lockdown, and perhaps safer here than we would be in the States. We have money, food, and good relations with neighbors. We plan to stick it out here.
5 Antidotes to Stress
Mar 23, 2020 11:10:56 AM Sarah Rymer Healthcare & Wellness, Morocco, Hope, Life, Tips, Learning, Crisis
Sometimes I can’t handle life anymore. It’s overwhelming, like a mountain I’m constantly climbing. There seems to be no end.
After the Crisis Has Passed
Mar 16, 2020 1:15:57 PM Sarah Rymer Hope, Life, Love, Relationships, community, Crisis
If you are like me, you are receiving daily emails from every airline you’ve ever flown explaining all that they are doing to keep you safe if you travel with them. With constantly changing news and health and travel advisories, perhaps you, like many in IDEAS, have been forced to rethink or change your upcoming travel plans, conference attendance, and daily ...
6 Tips to Travel Internationally with Kids
Mar 9, 2020 12:13:02 PM Sarah Rymer China, Children, Families, Living Overseas, Tips, travel
My family and I recently returned from a long trip: 47 days, 9 hotels/homes, 5 flights, 2 small children, and many unexpected changes of plans. We lived to tell the tale and be thankful for it! We’ve lived overseas for almost five years and are not strangers to travel, but we’ve realized the way we travel had to change once we became parents.
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Living Beyond the Dream
Mar 2, 2020 11:32:06 AM Sarah Rymer Jordan, Life, Living Overseas, Tips, Learning, Culture, community
I've heard it many times. When people learn that I work overseas they say, "You're living my dream." That may be true. People dream of the adventure of travel and living in a new place. I get to live in Jordan, a fascinating place with a long history, friendly people, and delicious food. But I've learned that those who last the longest overseas have ...
The Therapy of a Language Class
Feb 24, 2020 11:55:11 AM Sarah Rymer Cyprus, Hope, IDEAS projects, Love, Relationships, community, Transformation
Last night I received a text from one of my English students. “Sorry to bother you, teacher. What does ‘capeesh’ mean? It’s not in the dictionary.”
My Thoughts Before You Go
Feb 10, 2020 11:39:33 AM Sarah Rymer Tunisia, Children, Families, Living Overseas, Love, Relationships
Today it hit me, wells of emotions came rushing from nowhere and shook me from the inside out. My son is going away from his family core to begin his own life away from us, away from what we call home at this moment in time.
What He Sees: An Optometrist in the Middle East
Feb 4, 2020 1:10:27 PM Sarah Rymer Healthcare & Wellness, Jordan, IDEAS projects, Relationships, Transformation
I am an optometrist living and serving in the Middle East. I examine refugee patients at two humble clinics situated within two local churches. I primarily see Syrian and Iraqi refugees.
How Training to Be a Physician Assistant Is Changing Me
Jan 28, 2020 2:47:22 AM Sarah Rymer Thailand, Myanmar, Healthcare & Wellness, IDEAS projects, Transformation
Sai Sai Poe is a Physician Assistant student at Earth Mission Asia and in his last year of training at the Rain Tree Clinic, which was established on the edge of Karen state in Myanmar to provide healthcare for the Karen people and training for local students in the ...
How to Raise Your CQ
Jan 20, 2020 12:24:19 PM Sarah Rymer Life, Living Overseas, Relationships, Tips, Learning, Culture, Multiple Locations
Although we’re already halfway through the month of January, you may still be thinking about your goals for 2020 and for this new decade. Hopefully, you’ve not already given up on your New Year’s resolutions! As you think about the changes you’d like to make, maybe you are focused on the usual: losing weight, getting more exercise, or spending less time on ...