Writer, EFL teacher, trainer, and translator, I was born in Tanzania, have lived in a dozen countries over three continents, and describe myself as an ‘expatriate sin patria’. Wherever I go I make it my business to learn the language, get to know the local people and customs, and discover the country’s remotest corners. I became interested in writing in mid-2006, did a short Open University creative writing course and a Writers’ Bureau course, and began getting articles published in 2007.

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It rained little in Uruguay in the first five months of this year. In early May, the government put out an alert: water stocks were low in the hydroelectric dams and we were all asked to make an effort to save energy. It's easy to do your bit: switch off a few lights here and there, avoid using kitchen machines ... it hardly affects your livelihood - but it's difficult for city-dwellers to imagine what the lack of rain really means for people out in the countryside.

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Yesterday my English class was devoted to making sushi,

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The Italian branch of an expat website called expatclic is having a photo competition: the photos show how the participants see their expat life, and each photo has a few words of explanation. Go to http://foto.expatclic.com/index.php, and to see all the photos, click on 'tutte le fotagrafie del concorso'. You may recognise my entries! There are some real beauties - I love the one of the bike wheel in the snow. From 1 June you can vote - please do - we all need your support!

Today is a day I will always remember.

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