30/06/2026
The Foreigners We Know
Vol. 28: Steve Steve Borg
If you’ve been to a few of our events, chances are you’ve bumped into Steve. He’s become one of the lovely familiar faces in our community, somehow managed to collect quite a few friends along the way, and today he’s sharing the story of how he ended up in Prague. And we are here for it 💌 well done Steve Borg 🍻
“I hail from the sunny island of Malta. Prior to Malta I was living in Ireland. Since living in a bigger island wasn’t enough, I moved to mainland Europe.
It wasn’t really in the plan to come to Prague. I originally thought that I would stay in Ireland, to make my life a bit easier with the job search, the language and driving on the left but in October 2022 I moved here with no work and no place to stay. Clearly, learning a Slavic language, change of currency, and other cultural nuances were what I was secretly missing in my life.
In 2 years living here in I switched from sales to academia and began teaching psychology at Anglo American University, doing teacher-training courses and working as a mental health counsellor.
To keep myself sane, I do daily yoga, prepare a terrific high protein chia-seed yoghurt and lately started climbing.
When I look back, Prague was the place where aspects of my life finally got together, navigating friendships as an adult, doing the job I always wanted, living by myself, mastering the air fryer game but also other aspects that irremediably got torn apart as well. Through the good, the bad and the ugly I had become an adult here.
Back in 2015, during my final year of university, I had a psychology conference in Czech Republic. It was my first time ever in CZ. I was exposed to a variety of cultures, professions in psychology and Czech beer, and I’ve been wondering since then, if this is all coming to a circle”
- Steve