Everyone's a Foreigner

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Cultural Norms with Akvilina Reiger

Akvilina Reiger has lived in the USA for over 20 years yet she experienced new cultural norms and culture shock in her home country before ever coming across the Atlantic Ocean. Listen to Akvilina and...

Culture Shock with Tiffany Ingle

Tiffany Ingle is an ESL professional who has a beautiful way of sharing her stories and observations as well as bringing wisdom to cultural situations. We discuss the challenging stages of the culture...

Culture Shock with Mehmet Casey

Mehmet was born and raised in Baghdad, Iraq. Then he received a Fulbright scholarship to Billings, MT, ended up staying and has been there for 15 years so far. Listen to how he navigated the multiple...

Culture Shock with Clementine Lindley

Clementine Lindley is a born and raised Montanan who proclaimed at 7 years old she was going to live in Ireland. Not really understanding what that meant at the time, but learning it was possible, pro...

Culture Shock with Akvilina Rieger

Akvilina Rieger talks about her experience with culture shock when coming to the USA as a high school student.

Culture Shock with Ignacio Barron Viela

Ignacio Barrón Viela was born in España has lived in multiple European countries for his career before landing in Billings, Montana USA. This is his first conversation with Janese about living in anot...

Culture Shock with Andrea Heiliger

There are plenty of adjectives to describe Andrea - artistic, caring, spunky, brave, witty, smiley, dedicated, and adventurous are a few that come to mind. If you're ever having a bad day, she's the p...

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley
The hosting foreigner

About janese

My journey as a foreigner began at 18 years old when I left for university and again when I was 23 years old, and I left for Asia to teach English after graduating from university. Before leaving the continent, I was a farmer’s daughter from North Dakota who had lived on both the East Coast and West Coast of America. I had a very diverse group of friends in high school so I thought it was normal...