Living abroad amid a pandemic: My Halal Kitchen’s Yvonne Maffei finds comfort in strangers while feeling ‘completely alone’ in Turkey
The founder of popular blog My Halal Kitchen, the American Yvonne Maffei, finds herself feeling completely alone in Turkey as the COVID-19 hit. But there is a quiet calm, she writes, an overall acceptance of what is and what needs to be done to protect everyone.
I’ve been living in the beautiful Turkish coastal town of Fethiye for a little over a year. In fact, at the one year mark, I was just about to make the trip back home to Chicago to settle a few important things when the COVID-19 outbreak occurred in China.
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Yvonne Maffei