Making Myself at Home in the World - Dorros, Sybilla Green
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This book is the story of a well-traveled and well-informed American expatriate woman, Sybilla Green Dorros. It's recounted in chapters - one for each place she lived - starting in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and ending in San Diego, California. While the bookend chapters are set in the United States, most of the locations are global. Four of them involved assignments with her family of origin (her parents and the earlier ones with her two sisters): Paris, Léopoldville, Accra, and Casablanca. Two were on her own: Rome and her first stint in Geneva. The last two, and the longest sojourns spanning…mehr

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This book is the story of a well-traveled and well-informed American expatriate woman, Sybilla Green Dorros. It's recounted in chapters - one for each place she lived - starting in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and ending in San Diego, California. While the bookend chapters are set in the United States, most of the locations are global. Four of them involved assignments with her family of origin (her parents and the earlier ones with her two sisters): Paris, Léopoldville, Accra, and Casablanca. Two were on her own: Rome and her first stint in Geneva. The last two, and the longest sojourns spanning nearly a quarter century, were in Manila and back in Geneva with her family by marriage (her husband and three children). Each relocation - to disparate countries at different stages of her life - presented new sets of challenges. This book reveals how she tackled these challenges and how she felt - and continues to feel - at home almost anywhere but with nowhere to truly call home.
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Sybilla Green Dorros is a well-traveled and well-informed American expatriate woman. As the daughter of a U.S. diplomat and later the wife of an international civil servant, Sybilla lived on four different continents, including 10 years in Africa, 14 years in Asia, 10 years in Europe and the rest in the U.S. In addition to living in nine foreign countries (France, the Belgian Congo, Ghana, Italy, Morocco, Switzerland, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines), Sybilla traveled extensively worldwide. She also served with the American Red Cross in war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sybilla had a varied career. She taught Chinese politics at universities in the Philippines and Switzerland. She wrote and edited on a contract basis for various international organizations. She is the author of more than 200 articles published in magazines and newspapers. She later worked in fundraising communications. She was a certified childbirth educator and author of A Lamaze Guide for the Philippines, and is currently a certified Kundalini Yoga instructor.