This article is the kind of dialog that goes on in my head nearly everyday of my existence here in Japan. Anna Blackaby starts her article by voicing the thought I have at least once a day, "maybe it's time to go back." But as time goes on for me, another question rises, "What does it mean to go back"? I mean when does one not qualify for going back? My home is here as far as my personal situation is concerned. I have some family in the US, but I have more here. Every home that I lived in is now occupied by someone other than my family. I've lost contact with nearly every friend I ever had there.
"Go back to what," is how my self dialogs usually end nowdays. I am back.
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2 comments:
I'm making my first trip home in 5 years and am not even excited.
My real home is where I have lived for the past 10 years.
I visit my family once or twice a year, and I enjoy it very much for lots of reasons, but I can't say that I'm going "home" or that I would ever "go home," meaning back to the US for a long term.
I agree with you, though. It is so funny when people, after asking me the usual questions about my nationality/race, ask when I'm going "home." They don't get the answer they want, usually.
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