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Here’s the best of 2020 from the Fatterati.

January

Kirsty – Years and Years

Nikki – Fleabag Season Two

February

Kirsty – Australian Survivor All Stars

Nikki – Little Women

March

Kirsty – Stateless

Nikki – Catch and Kill

April

Kirsty – Unorthodox

Rabbit Hole (Podcast)

Nikki – Fortunately with Fi and Jane

After Life Season 2 (Netflix)

May

Kirsty – Four Corners – Outbreak Onboard (ABC Australia)

Nikki – Wind of Change (Podcast)

June

Kirsty – Hannah Gadsby – Douglas (Netflix)

Nikki – Rodham – by Curtis Sittenfeld (book)

July

Kirsty – Round 7 Port Adelaide vs Carlton (the end)

Nikki – Exciting Times – Naoise (Neesha) Dolan

August

Kirsty – The Resilience Project

Nikki – Nice White Parents

September

Kirsty – I Hate Suzie – (TV)

Nikki – Pivot – Podcast

October

Kirsty – Kitty Flanagan – Educating your kids on sex and porn

Nikki – Borgen – Netflix

#singforGrace2020

November

Kirsty – The Crown’s official podcast

Nikki – The US Election

December

Kirsty – The High Low

Nikki – Canary

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Welcome back Fatterati!

This week’s four fat questions

• Do you think your kids would be different had they not grown up as Cross Culture Kids? How?
• How do you go about college/university applications for your expat teen?
• What are your three favourite Christmas movies?
• You can love a city but can it ever love you back? If a city could love you as much as you loved a city, which city loved you the most? Which one was the best for you, which city loved you back?

Our three favourite things for this week

Kirsty has (like the rest of the world) been obsessed with the Crown and gone down the youtube rabbit hole.

Here’s the episode of Ladies we need to talk “The Secret Lives of Vaginas”.

And This American Life and the “Americans in Paris”.

Nikki reminded us to capitalise our hashtags or should I say #CapitaliseYourHashtags. Here’s a great article on why 

https://www.boia.org/blog/make-your-hashtags-accessible

She also shared this article from Lindy West from 2013 that might just make you feel a little differently about Love Actually

We also discussed Nikki’s mourning of the end of the High Low.

See you next week Fatterati, but if you want to chat in the meantime head on over to the Two Fat Expats Facebook Group, it’s the best expat party in town.

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Covid strikes in Adelaide (we recorded the day before lockdown hit) and Hamburg has had 3000 new cases in the last week but never fear we’re still here to talk all things expat.

Our Four Fat questions:

What gets you excited about a new move?

What’s your clean out strategy before a move?

Are you the mandarin or the garlic? It all makes sense when you listen, I promise! But basically it’s all about when you fit in but just don’t feel the same as everyone else.

Are you a bad mother for feeling like your children are holding you hostage? Why does this questions always cause such an adverse reaction. We discuss.

Our three favourite things:

The Crown Season Four (everyone’s talking about it aren’t they)

The final episode of The Circus (ep 21 season 5) – in particular Debbie Dingells chat about Joe Biden.

The Crown’s official podcast

Nick Bryant talking to Richard Fidler on Conversations

The absolutely scrummy delicious Americano’s from Chappel Hill

Nikki’s happy that all her American TV is back and running

The Undoing with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant (not Jackman)

Enjoy! And we’ll see you next week

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We kick off with an update from Susan and Eva who are in China. They fill us in on the current Corona situation and what their life in China looks like right now.

We’re also introducing the Fat Four Expats Questions. Each week Nikki and I have four fat questions to ask each other:

What’s your expat superpower?

Would you ever go on a cruise? Or as Nikki likes to call them “floating ball pits”.

How do you explain gaps in your resume in your expat life?

Are British women really having a mental health crises in Dubai?

Here’s a few of our favourites this week to watch/read or listen to:

Stateless – ABC iview or Netflix (later in the year for Netflix but abcview now

Ride like a Girl

Ice Coffee

Catch and Kill

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This is our first ever podcast recorded together and it should possibly come with an apology. We had a great chat, and it’s possible there was a bit of rambling BECAUSE WE WERE TOGETHER!

In this episode we cover owning a house in your home country. Transitioning your children from expat to repat without you. Kirsty’s daughter Lizzie gave us a piece of gold on what moving is all about. What we loved in 2019 and what we’re looking forward to in 2020. And Vasilopita!

Years and Years

The Handmaids Tale Season Three

Fleabag Season Two

Catastrophe Season Three

Author – Mitch Albom

Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Hollywood

Vasilopita

Looking forward to Killing Eve Season Three, Fleabag Season Three, Sex Education Season Two. Nikki can’t wait to see how the paytv wars pan out, Kirsty’s dreading it. Kirsty and Nikki are both looking forward to bedding down with some stability in 2020 – they’re both dreaming. 🙂

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It’s a BRAND new season and we’re baaaaaackkkkk!

Kirsty is looking for 5 new friends for Christmas, after being in Doha for 9 years, she is definitely a ‘stayer’ and a long termer but still in need of new ways to make friends.

We break down all the different ways she might be able to do that and asked the Facebook group about the strangest place they’ve ever met a new friend and then discuss them all in the podcast.

Join us on the socials with the #’s #twofatexpats and #Frexpats #TFEchallenge #Fatfriends

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Three Favourite Things

Kirsty

Watching – Survivor Australia

Watching – The Hunting SBS Australia

Listening – Mia Freedman No Filter The Surprising Reasons Teens Send Nude Selfies

Nikki

Podcast – Why’d you push that button

TV Show – The Handmaids Tale Season 3

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It’s still Season 3 and it’s already Episode 8 of Two Fat Expats. The 2016 US election results continue to be discussed in households around the world and expats are no different. This week we look at the election results through the eyes of a Muslim family in the US, a Muslim American in the Middle East and a American family also living in the Middle East.

Thank you so much to Nivin, Ms Hala and Matt for sharing their stories with us.

This week we WILL finish  The Disobedient Wife, by Annika Milisic-Stanley and will be discussing it very soon! If you’re reading along – finish up now.

Here’s the links to the social media discussed in this episode:

Kirsty’s social media

Podcasts – This American Life – Master of her Domain Name and This American Life – The Sun Comes Up and Straight and Curly

Reading – Big Little Lies, Liane Moriarty, nearly done!

Watching – Suits, Season 1

Nikki’s social media

Watching – The Crown, The Affair Season 3

Podcast – Bowraville

Reading – The Disobedient Wife

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Hello hello hello!

We’re back!

In this episode we’re joined by the fabulous Nikki Moffitt, an Aussie who has just made the move from the US to Hamburg. This is Nikki’s fourth move in 14 years. Is it any easier the fourth time around? Have a listen and a giggle while we discuss.

In this episode we’ll also discuss our favourite podcasts, movies and books as well as launching the Two Fat Expats book group.

This month we’ll be reading Diplomatic Incidents: The Memoirs of an (Un)diplomatic Wife by Cherry Denman. You can click the link to grab a copy. We’d also love it if you left us a message. Can you see the prompt just to the right of the page? We’d love to hear from you.

Here’s the links to the social media we talked about today:

Nikki’s social media

Studying for this podcast and researching other book groups led Nikki to listen to the Mamamia Book Club and Episode 7 The Thriller: The One Who Got Away, Caroline Overington was the one that caught her attention.

Expatiquette tip for the week, How to Recycle in Germany, it’s very complicated! You can read There’s A Bin For That: What I learned About Recycling In Germany here

Kirsty’s social media

The Well podcast with Bec Sparrow and Robyn Bailey Episode 5. Exercise. Do you want to be fit or do you want to be thin?

The movie we mentioned was Me Before You

Thanks for tuning into the first episode of Season 3. As always we beg and plead for you to please head on over to iTunes and give us a rating. You can also come and say hi on our Facebook page or send us a voice message from the button on the web page. We love to hear from our listeners!

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Two Fat Expats where we believe you should live a fat expat life, live it to the max and make the most out of every moment.

This week we’re talking to two amazing expats who are doing extraordinary things in their expat life. Dr Erik left his medical practice in Beverly Hills working with famous actors and actresses to start a new life overseas. Firstly with Doctors without Borders and then with The Clinton Foundation. Dr Erik now lives in Thailand working for a medical clinic. He has done it all and seen it all and you’ll love his interview.

A big thank you to the lovely Jane, an Australian expat living in Hong Kong. With three young children at home, Jane still found time to dedicate to a group of refugee women and teaches them how to sew.

Articles

Doctors without Borders Tumblr page

Volunteering in Singapore – 7 expats are making a change in society

The two organisations Kirsty talked about were Kiva and Solar-Aid.

Sarah’s Social Media

Book: The Light Between Oceans – this had me howling and took me a good week to get over it before I could pick up another book. It won Book of the Year and Best Novel. Well worth the read.

Podcast: The Librarian is In (NYC Public Library). If you love reading then you’ll love this podcast. Librarians Gwen and Frank discuss what’s new in the book world, what to read and throw in a bit of pop culture and share stories from the world of the NY Public Library.

Kirsty’s Social Media

TV: UnREAL  is an American dark comedy/drama television series that premiered on Lifetime on June 1, 2015. It stars Shiri Appleby as a young reality television producer pushed by her unscrupulous boss (Constance Zimmer) to swallow her integrity and do anything it takes to drum up salacious show content.

Podcast: Port Fan Radio is a podcast by the fans for the fans of the Port Adelaide Football Club.

We’ve got one episode left until we break for the Summer. Kirsty and Sarah are thinking about setting up a Summer Book Club. If you have any book suggestions you think we might like please send us a note on the Two Fat Expats Facebook Page.

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Two Fat Expats where we believe you should live your expat life to the max, live it large and live it fat.

This week we’re talking about the glamorous life of an expat, or lack there of.

Many people looking from the outside in would think all expats live a glamorous lifestyle of brunching and jet setting off to exotic locations. While there can be elements of truth to that, expat life for the most part is not always glamorous, we still live ordinary lives, just in extraordinary locations.

A big thank you to the lovely and hilarious Annabelle who shared her story about expat life in Johannesburg.

We had a great response from readers of the 4 Kids, 20 Suitcases and a Beagle page and also from the Two Fat Expats page.

Articles

Expat life ain’t always glamorous

My glamorous life as an expat wife

The myth of the glamorous expat

Expat life with kids – not richer or poorer

Sarah’s Social Media

Kirsty’s Social Media

New favourite salad from Smitten Kitchen

Richard Fidler podcast which you can download here.

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