Foreign, Or

If a festival could be personified, Sofia Ballon Hamann would be it. Escaping the gravity of home, Shifei has a hard landing back into the land of academia and finds herself working at a Dutch McDonald's. The struggle is real in this completely inconclusive conversation about a Foreign-Or life in medias res.

If a festival could be personified, Sofia Ballon Hamann would be it. Following the Peruvian globetrotter we go from backpacking in SE Asia to the first Shifeistival in Beijing to a longer-than-expected landing back home.

Former reporter in China turned life coach in Germany Andrea Hunt talks expat exes, freedom versus stability while abroad, and the paradox of "the plan".

Hailing from South Africa, Debbie-Lee Van Ginkel spent 17 years in Beijing. Now she is starting all over again in Siem Reap, living her best life as a NIA instructor and cat butler.

Akua Naru is a riddler, a rhymer, and a foreign-or who lives here and there and everywhere. This emcee’s complexity is reflected in the black music she shares all around the world.

Robbie Worth is a real life ninja. The American is a 10th degree black belt and teaches budo taijitsu in Chengdu. In his spare time he cycles, works with leather, and throws knives.

Zovi, the French founder of comic 'zine Shaving in the Dark told me about missions, music, and her transformation to become the Foreign, Or in Shanghai who 画画s.