#driving abroad

[divorcedorhappilysingle]

Pickleball and Potlucks: My Quirky Quest to Fit In Panama

So, how does an introvert crash land into the social scene of Panama within a month? First, let me say for those who know me, I may not seem like an introvert, but I was for many years, so let me walk you through my unintentional masterclass in ‘Friend-making for the Socially Reluctant’. Accidental Extrovert Spoiler alert: I didn’t morph into a social butterfly overnight. I’m more of a “hide in…

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#culture #Driving Abroad #ex-pat living #Humorous Stories #Panama #Panama city #pickleball #San Carlos #Travel Adventure

[leopardom]

so this time Bojan’s AND Kris’ baggage got lost

stay tuned for more updates on this saga

#what an interesting way to start your gigs abroad #the ones that don’t require driving from a country to the other at least #joker out #bojan cvjeticanin #kris gustin

[crawley-fell]

Every year I travel up to my partner's family after Christmas and every year my trains are cancelled when will I learn

#and shes got the car so i cant just drive up booooo #next year im going abroad

[pipskippy]

rly wish they brought the endearingly odd parts of the original revue starlight play to the anime/movies…for example like hikari’s unnerving fake smile/demeanor and junna’s hysterical laugh out of nowhere and futaba’s more aggressive attitude. also i miss maya’s white gloves. and unrelated but yeah nana should be taller she should be like 6 foot at least

#i do love hikaris unrelenting autism stare i really do #but there’s something about her acting that rly drives home the point of her having lost her radiance when it’s a more stark difference #like in their first revue in the play where junna’s all freaked out by hikari and the whole situation but then turns the tide because she #realizes hikari has no real dream no true light in her eyes. and hikari’s mocking grin just drops. #also hikari has much more of a sophisticated elite kind of vibe when she first transfers…in the anime its like she’s definitely amazing #coming from studying abroad at a highly regarded school and everything. but her attitude is more like a stoic kind of creature #and i do love that creature #but i also love mimori’s graceful polite charm that feels just a little too contrived #idk maybe it’s just because as an autistic person i relate more to masking #but since it’s a story about the stage and acting #hikari putting on an unnerving elegant act like that is more impactful to me #pip speaks #revue starlight

[fish-at-fish-fish-resort]

getting emotional about splatoon again. god. that fucking squid makes me feel things about my own life im crying all over my yogurt

#pov youve been into splatoon since the first game and in splatoon 3 theres the new capn and thats YOU. thats you those years ago. #thats the kid that saved up their money to buy a wii u. opening it up the first time digging for the splatoon download code hoping it works #ans then it does and then youre in this new colorful world full of whimsy and. and then you got splatoon 2 and a switch for Christmas #and now this lonely teen gets to experience that joy again. #of opening up the switch and putting in the cardridge and inputting the online subscription code hoping it works. and then it does. #and youre back in inkopolis. #and you get yourself octo expansion after watching a playthrough while abroad visiting your family. and you get to pick the looks of agent 3 #and the game asks you because thats you. thats the kid those years ago. thats the teen playing right now. thats you. #and now youre an adult. you preordered splatoon three. you played it on the bus drive home. and you enter the story mode. #and youre faced again with yourself. #that kid finding joy in this world when home wasnt the best. #that teen finding community and frienedship n this game when they had noone to talk to #and you realize how far youve come. and youre proud of yourself. and youre happy youre alive #and now youre an adult who doesnt know exactly where to go from here. but will keep trying. #if not for yourself now. then maybe for a future you who will remember this. then maybe for the past you that you look back to. #and im not even mentioning all the transgender stuff #im not normal about this game guys #fishbrain thoughts

[moinsbienquekaworu]

I'm sorting & checking files for past exchange students and man I do wish I'd had the grades + motivation to go to the US. Traveling to the UK is complicated but less than taking the damn plane over a whole ocean, y'know?

#like man i am never going to see my mutuals at this rate 😔 #i mean that's not the main thing it's more a nice bonus #but like. taking a holiday to the us is a bigger thing than the uk if you live in france #and now i still have to bother with visas and i don't get the european scholarship #but i'm just going across the channel #if i'm going to go live abroad for a year it would have been cool to go all in and leave for the us #but alas. grades not good enough. and my parents aren't rich enoug for that #and i don't think i want to be in a country where the sociopolitical situation is.... like that. #also i can't drive lol #wow i have a ramble tag now

[probablyhuntersmom]

Some bluntly honest cancer-related thoughts. And with these final few days of being age 30, maybe I almost had two panic attacks in the past few hours because of the CPTSD sense of a foreshortened future.

IRL people will tell me "Stage 2 isn't the same as Stage 4!" but how can one be so arrogant to presume and be so sure?

I really don't know how much time I have and like, it - all the more - drives the desire to find the sweet spot of intensity in which I want to try and do everything that I do. Make as much art and screenshot scenes as I can. Help clients or anyone who needs a mental health boost or anyone who is wounded. Find more and more pieces of truth here and there. Psychoeducate. Advocate. Bake yummy snacks. Make somebody laugh. Cackle at memes. Visit places and people. Push back against those who don't want to see me living well, with the help of my support network.

I would've lost the whole arm but the cells hadn't reached my humerus bone yet. It's annoying that the section of scapula protecting the top of the humerus was removed, so the humerus socket is largely exposed and I feel it under the two large long scars covering my upper left torso. But say, even if there's an amputation awaiting me in the future, I can still draw using trackpad, the Curve tool, Lasso and Gradient tools...And most of all: my brain and thinking would remain intact. But the possibilities of conditions that can affect my brain itself? That's the scariest of all.

There's an unfathomably massive gap between the possibility that the illness won't actually come back, and the possibility that idk, in 4 months or in 4 years...some malignant cells will show up in my pancreas or something, and I'll be toast, lose my ability to draw (because chemo/radiation yadda yadda) and the clock will be ticking more intensely. The gap is like an ocean, wide enough that I can't see one end or the other.

And I suppose the adventure lies in not knowing what it's going to be, just that I know that I'll have good company along the way.

#surgery mention #cancer mention #loz says stuff #I just. can't shake the drive to go and see my friends abroad next year. I don't know how much time I have

[ahomeganeyatsu]

I'd pay to read a crossover fic of Hilda and Gravity Falls.

#the one where dipper and mabel have a summer abroad #and they end up meeting Hilda #also wendy and that librarian witch is a ship i'd set sail #dipper and frida would get along #and mabel and hilda would be driving their adventures #hilda x gravity falls #gravity halls #hilda #mix in norman and it would be a blast

[loverofallthingssmart]

when ur so lonely and depressed u override the strict parent mindset and they become normal now

#my parents r like PLEASE we r fine with u going out please leave the fucking house GET OUT!!! #we can takecare of ur brother we will be fine without u GO DO SMTH W FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #ik its hard to believe but the trick is to be soo fucking pathetic its embarrassing for THEM and now its like imperative u #go out for THEIR mental health..it does come at the risk of ur parents then telling everyone they know that ur a fucking loser <- true fact #all of my parents friend circles believe i have zero friends bc well. my mother says exactly that HELP #this is just for hanging out though 🙏 everything else is still the same #anyway. does where shld i go alone my closest friends r traveling abroad and everyone else lives more than a 30 min drive away </3

[divorcedorhappilysingle]

Potholes, Pooches, and Panache: Navigating Panama's Highways with Humor.

Welcome to the hilariously unpredictable roads of Panama, where driving is less about rules and more about embracing the unexpected with a sense of humor! Picture this: Everything in Panama moves at a leisurely pace, which is great unless you’re in a car. Here, ‘slow’ takes on a whole new meaning. It’s like the country collectively decided that ‘hurry’ is a word better left to the rest of the…

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#Adventure Travel #Central America #Cultural Differences #Driving Abroad #Expat Life #Humorous Stories #International Living #Life Abroad #living free #mental health #Panama #passion #Road Safety #Travel Tips

[citrus-blade]

I have completed the 5.5 hour drive and am now freeeeeeeee (ignores final due tomorrow at midnight)

What the longest/furthest you’ve driven?

YEEEES!

Ehhh... When I was a child we used to drive to italy over night and drove like 11 hours...? But I was a child then and slept most of the time lol

With my friends I think it was like 5 hours. 2 1/2 hours to drive to a convention in the morning and the other 2 1/2 hours back in the evening. And the same the next day cause hotel were expensive af lol

#ask #citrus talks #mistythedritten #I love car rides #but I hate the highway #here in germany there are no tempo limits on most highways so some people drive like its a race #and with like those big trucks it's really creepy #I like it on sundays cause then most of those trucks aren't allowed to drive unless they transport meat or something that can get bad #Also some people come from abroad JUST to drive on the highways without a tempo limit and yeah. Creepy af #A lot of people don't use their blinkers (?) and just change lanes without a warning so yeaaah.... #I do feel comfortable when we ride on the left lane cause this is the slowest. Hate the right one

[jgyapologism]

i’ve watched soooo many BLs in the past few weeks that it’s all just a blur lmao it’s like i’m feeling so many things but can’t distinguish which BLs made me feel those things they’re all so intertwined for me

....

anyways, onto the next one

#that's what i get for bingeing one after another #but i dont regret it lmao #until we meet again #the eclipse series #theory of love #cutie pie the series #vice versa #a tale of thousand stars #love in the air #war of y #cupid's last wish #magic of zero: zero photography #dark blue kiss #and i still have soooo many more to go #im gonna need to download some onto my hard drive to watch while im abroad #i'm so behind on shows and im determined to catch up

[bornforbvrning]

Almost time to go see lotl!

The venue is pretty much not reachable by public transport tho :(

Yesss the concert’s almost here!

Oh no, it sucks so much with the venue location :( I hope you & your bf figure something out in case you haven’t sorted out the transport yet. Fingers crossed 🤞✨

#ask #lotl #seriously tho i wish all venues were reachable by public transport #as someone who can’t drive and often goes to concerts abroad i couldn’t repear this enough

[artificial-horizon]

getting rejected from one ATC company while getting accepted to the next interview stage with another ATC company on the same day... why r u doing this to my emotions

#the sadness of the former definitely outweighed the happiness of the latter for a few days lol i was ANGSTYYYY #now gotta focus on the opportunity i have and try to ace it #i can apply to the first place again in a year anyway so i'm TRYING to get some sense of hope from that #at least the next interview stage at the second place means going abroad and doing tests in person aka i get to travel on a plane YAY :) #if i can get my adhd ass brain into shape i will actually be spending the next month preparing for the tests #somehow #i need to tame my rabid relentless chaotic obsession with getting my dream job #and turn it into a laser focused weapon of determination and drive #because i WILL do this no matter fucking what #i've also booked a flight lesson for next week (!!!) as a pick me up after all the bs going on recently :D #RIDICULOUSLY EXCITED for it cos who can be sad about life when you're flying thru the sky <3 #also wanna see if i can get any fun ATC-related insider info and nerdery from the instructor etc #i hope they can tell me how to get into the control tower... #atc

[heich0e]

ok but shouto todoroki as colin firths character in love actually

#falls in love with his house keeper who tends the house he’s staying in abroad #they don’t speak the same language but he drives her home every day #“it’s my favourite part of the day… driving you” #“it’s the saddest part of my day... leaving you” #help

[yandere-daze]

Guess who's going to go on a plane for the very first time and is very nervous right now djdjd

#I really hope I've done everything right so far but man #we're going to drive to the airport very soon #and then I'll be staying abroad for 2 whole months #and I've never lived away from home #So let's hope everything goes well!