tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21434337.post114138135923825245..comments2023-06-28T12:56:54.578+01:00Comments on More to Me: The hardest thing to get used to...meghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06041527732133374839noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21434337.post-1141488060297603332006-03-04T16:01:00.000+00:002006-03-04T16:01:00.000+00:00Hi Megg! Its so good to be back and have Internet...Hi Megg! Its so good to be back and have Internet access again as of today and now I have all your posts to catch up on for the last TWELVE days! (Right now I am only going to read this one because I'm heading out the door shortly!) but I could so relate to this post having lived overseas myself. I would get so excrutiatingly homesick sometimes, but them once home, after a week or two, I was ready to leap back over the ocean. I'm so nostalgic for the pre-Bush days you can't imagine. In the end, no matter where we live, it will always be the person or people in our lives who make us feel most alive that is the most important piece, and the life you are creating with Mark seems so beautiful and creative and real and in the end thats where your heart will likely want to call itself home.Alex Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02109059018269508607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21434337.post-1141451452446166372006-03-04T05:50:00.000+00:002006-03-04T05:50:00.000+00:00My best friend from highschool moved to Amsterdam ...My best friend from highschool moved to Amsterdam after college and married a Dutchman and has been there now 10 or 11 years. Many of their friends are international -- it's probably really different to be in a city like Amsterdam or London than in your village. I think in a village, you can be from 2 hours away in the same country, and never "belong". I have a dream of owning a villa in Italy some day, and I used to want to live there full time, but I realized that exact thing: I would always be an outsider there. And as much as I don't like the direction my country is headed in, it is my country, and as someone who moved around constantly as a kid, I really want to put down roots now and be part of a community. I just hope that I'll be able to afford a second home! But I empathize with your situation, because you and Mark will have to choose. At least it's England and Canada though, and not, say, Lapland and Congo. You know? You Canadians and Brits can't be SO different!! At least you don't have a language to learn! (And I AM sorry you get mistaken for a Yank. When we travel now we want to claim to be Canadians out of shame!)Laini Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14064837312936707024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21434337.post-1141432876550534132006-03-04T00:41:00.000+00:002006-03-04T00:41:00.000+00:00I "get you" totally, though I cut my own experienc...I "get you" totally, though I cut my own experiences short (way too short). However, the questions you get -- have you ever noticed that Canadians don't ask the same questions of people with an English accent? I think it's because, as a newer country, we're so used to people moving *to* Canada. My best friend is a Mancunian with a very pronounced accent but I don't think it even occurred to me to ask her about it until I knew her well enough.andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16364011769128646998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21434337.post-1141414969655921072006-03-03T19:42:00.000+00:002006-03-03T19:42:00.000+00:00You have such an amazing way with words - I can so...You have such an amazing way with words - I can so relate to all you´ve written.Claudiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13354452103151051055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21434337.post-1141408621503656772006-03-03T17:57:00.000+00:002006-03-03T17:57:00.000+00:00This post is brilliant! Having lived in various co...This post is brilliant! Having lived in various countries, including England, I can totally relate. For some reason though, I felt more at home in England than I do here in Canada sometimes...do you get that too? I loved being the exotic one, being different. Going against the norm is a tough thing, but so worth it. And you sound like you have definitely made the right choice for you right now! I believe living in different cultures only deepens our understanding of them and enriches our own lives in ways we may never have expected. And its so brave...well done!Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06756541991772750190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21434337.post-1141403189720577132006-03-03T16:26:00.000+00:002006-03-03T16:26:00.000+00:00I love this post...the window it gives us into you...I love this post...the window it gives us into your life, and your being. Perhaps it is because I am so far removed from your personal experience that I have never even questioned what took you to the UK in the beginning. <BR/>You certainly are inspiring to me...but the inspiration you evoke comes not from your choices of geographical location...it comes from your brilliant and moving soul. <BR/>Sending love and hugs!!tara dawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07493936146686473190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21434337.post-1141397242311374472006-03-03T14:47:00.000+00:002006-03-03T14:47:00.000+00:00We haven't forgotten you and never will.xoxooxo kWe haven't forgotten you and never will.xoxooxo kSChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03125742911091291297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21434337.post-1141383214416642062006-03-03T10:53:00.000+00:002006-03-03T10:53:00.000+00:00I've never lived in another country but this post ...I've never lived in another country but this post reminds me of the phrase "the past is another country"... <BR/><BR/>Glad you found the courage to follow your heart!Carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05635758748108011584noreply@blogger.com