This week I’m featured on expat author Cinda Mackinnon’s blog, as the 19th instalment in her “Expat Files”.

I wrote about one key way that expat life has affected me. Living in diverse communities in my early twenties influenced my understanding of several things, among them: my concept on beauty, my values, and my path forward in life.

I had a literal “classroom of diversity” (my class at a Chinese university – with students from Columbia, Indonesia, Germany, South Korea, Thailand and the United States). I also had a wider classroom of experience that shaped me in many ways.

Read the full article here:

The Classroom of Diversity: Expat File #19