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So it's coming up on the 7th anniversary of my HUGE life change, picking up with 3 small kids and moving to the other side of the planet. It's a daunting task for people without kids, much less someone with a 6 year old, 4 year old and 18 month old baby. Unfortunately for me, at that time there didn't exist a lot in the way of Ex-Pat forums, pages, sites etc. But with more and more people leaving their homeland in search of some more attainable utopia than what they were born into, there are ex-pat communities springing up all over the place online.
One such site is http://www.expat.com It has a plethora of information for those looking to make a big move or for those who have already made the move and are looking for ex-pat in their new surroundings. Unfortunately for myself, there is not a large amount of expat in my neck of the woods. But there is a lot of informed and interesting people I've met in these online expat communities. I've been able to both give and receive needed advice.
One question that most expat or rather soon to be expat always ask, is "what is the bed advice you can give as to how to adapt to a new place and culture. My response is always the same. You gotta look at the new environment for what it is, NEW. It's outside of your normal, outside of your comfort zone sometimes. You will have overwhelming bouts of homesickness sometimes because you just miss what you know as normal, and comfortable, but it will pass. You gotta try to find the beauty in everything around you. If you only see a half empty glass you'll have a half empty life. But if you find the good in everything, and put "home" into an international perspective, you'll see that life is basically the same everywhere, just with cultural differences. Keep your sense of adventure. Walk into life with arms wide open.
One such site is http://www.expat.com It has a plethora of information for those looking to make a big move or for those who have already made the move and are looking for ex-pat in their new surroundings. Unfortunately for myself, there is not a large amount of expat in my neck of the woods. But there is a lot of informed and interesting people I've met in these online expat communities. I've been able to both give and receive needed advice.
One question that most expat or rather soon to be expat always ask, is "what is the bed advice you can give as to how to adapt to a new place and culture. My response is always the same. You gotta look at the new environment for what it is, NEW. It's outside of your normal, outside of your comfort zone sometimes. You will have overwhelming bouts of homesickness sometimes because you just miss what you know as normal, and comfortable, but it will pass. You gotta try to find the beauty in everything around you. If you only see a half empty glass you'll have a half empty life. But if you find the good in everything, and put "home" into an international perspective, you'll see that life is basically the same everywhere, just with cultural differences. Keep your sense of adventure. Walk into life with arms wide open.
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Glad to hear you're still keeping on.
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