LIFE: I'll never be a cool expat blogger

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Writing and reading blogs often makes me reflect upon my own life - especially as an expat, an in fact it often makes me think my life even as an English girl in the US as rather dull. As the world gets smaller, people migrate and leave home countries, there's been a bit of an explosion of expat blogs out there, sometimes I try and pretend to be one too - the working class girl living and loving in the good old America with her own American Dream. But my life is not really huge, or big or interesting. 

Saving for a house means I don't get the chance or have the money to go on crazy road trips or really be a tourist like many expats experience once in their new country. Granted I've managed to find my way to Pittsburgh but that's only because the in-laws live there, Chicago was our honeymoon and Ohio is just the state in between. I've never been amazed by the lights of New York - i'm more of a Chicago, Washington kinda girl. I live in south east Michigan by a city everyone writes off and is disillusioned about - i'm not sure how many people really want to read about Detroit in all honesty. My life as an expat is about settling down, buying our first house and going to the store every Sunday for groceries. My life is as ordinary as it was in the UK which makes me think about packing this blogging lark in.

I just write and it's not very interesting what I do write which does go along with the comment my six form sociology teacher declared - my essays are packed with information and "you'll go far", but they are a little dull. Maybe eight years on, even in a new country, my writing, my life at least under the catergory as being an expat and my blog is just dull.