Being an outcast...

[Iris]

Waaaaaaah! :wah2:

I always thought I didn't particularly like England. Then I had to leave it, and now I'm a stranger in a strange land...a strange green land where people speak this crazy unpronouncable language and have an odd fetish about shamrocks.

I feel so far from home. :(

How long do you think it would take me to swim to England? What are my chances of dying a horrible, cold and wet death before I get halfway?

Sorry if I'm getting you guys down...was just wondering if anyone else knows how I feel.

Lol "I'm not getting you down, am I? Life, don't talk to me about life..."

Karma for anyone who gets the quote. :)

Hey, that's a good idea for a thread in 'Just Silly' *cue little lightbulb*

[WickedBttrfly]

Well I know how you feel on a smaller level. I've never lived outside the country but I have moved around a lot in the United States. I got used to feeling like an outcast. you just will at first. But eventually the feeling will go away...

[Charise]

:foh: umm... I don't get it... :wtf:

But I do understand about the feeling like a stranger in a strange land... when I first moved to Denver everyone and everything looked and felt so strange to me... and I thought surely they looked at me funny when I went shopping and stuff..lol

It took a while to adjust. But eventually with some time... we usually adapt. Hang in there hon! :hugz:

[Moonstoned]

:foh: umm... I don't get it... :wtf:

But I do understand about the feeling like a stranger in a strange land... when I first moved to Denver everyone and everything looked and felt so strange to me... and I thought surely they looked at me funny when I went shopping and stuff..lol

It took a while to adjust. But eventually with some time... we usually adapt. Hang in there hon! :hugz:

Marvin the paranoid android :flowers:

[ap Dafydd]

I lived in England for a few years when I was a student and one of the things that it brought home to me was just how different the English were from the Welsh. Convinced me (among other things) that I really didn't want to live abroad again.

gwyn eich byd

Ffred

[Moonstoned]

Marvin the paranoid android :flowers:

Anyway, shall I take you back with me when I come to Ireland next month? :hugz: I'm going to Cork, so that's no good is it?

Poor thing, I moan about England all the time but when I went to US for a couple of weeks I couldn't wait to get home. I had the time of my life, everything was great, it just wasn't what I was used to :lookaroun You long for people with the same cultural references, the same slang, etc. Love travelling but love coming home.

[*Rain*]

Take a short trip home of you can. Don't swim, the Irish Sea is brown. Don't take the ferry either. I have very nasty memories of sailing Dun Laoghaire to Holyhead in force 9 gales. I was clinging onto the floor for dear life and I wasn't even drunk.

It can be hard being away from home. I used to phone home or chat to friends when I felt a little homesick, then i'd go and do something in the new place that I really enjoyed to remind me how much I liked it. It's hard to get used to being away, no matter how much you hate it when you are there home will always be home.

How long have you been away? I was away from home for 6 years, one of those abroad and 5 at the other end of the country. Time makes it easier as you settle better into the new place and build more of a life there. It will pass promise.

[Moonstoned]

I was clinging onto the floor for dear life and I wasn't even drunk.




Hmmmm, well, :hmmmmm: it could be true ;)

[Iris]

I lived in England for a few years when I was a student and one of the things that it brought home to me was just how different the English were from the Welsh. Convinced me (among other things) that I really didn't want to live abroad again.

gwyn eich byd

Ffred

Yeah, I know what you mean, ap Dafydd...England and Ireland are so close together but the people are totally different, the way they think is different, the way they function as individuals, as families and as groups, social norms are different...

There are things that just leave me gobsmacked. Things that people would never do or say in England, people think is perfectly normal here! Like using certain curse words that would be totally taboo in England...or acting a certain way with someone you've just met...

I dunno. It's Britain but it's not England. It's...weird.

And I talk funny here. :(

[Iris]

How long have you been away? I was away from home for 6 years, one of those abroad and 5 at the other end of the country. Time makes it easier as you settle better into the new place and build more of a life there. It will pass promise.

Lol I've only been away for a few months. (I'm such a wimp) But I'm likely to be here a very long time...

I love my boyfriend. And he loves Ireland.

Go figure.

[*Rain*]

Hmmmm, well, :hmmmmm: it could be true ;)
Promise I was sober. All the other times i've been found clinging onto the floor I wasn't, but this time I was stony cold jober as a sudge.

[Sleet]

I was a Yankee in Texas for a while. I know how it feels. Couldn't wait to get back up north.

(ALthough I'd give my left arm to live in Ireland. ;) )

[Iris]

I was a Yankee in Texas for a while. I know how it feels. Couldn't wait to get back up north.

(ALthough I'd give my left arm to live in Ireland. ;) )

Ireland maybe, but BELFAST?

In the middle of a city?

I hate cities.

[*Rain*]

Lol I've only been away for a few months. (I'm such a wimp) But I'm likely to be here a very long time...

I love my boyfriend. And he loves Ireland.

Go figure.
The first few months are the hardest, everything is great at first because it's all new and exciting, and then you start noticing all the differences and the things you miss. After a little while longer it becomes home itself, you go home home and all you can talk about is how much you miss the new place. It's odd but you really do get used to it, just hang in there.

[Sleet]

BELFAST?

Well, OK, you got me there. My hate of cities might be greater than my love of Ireland.

[*Rain*]

Top tip for cheering yourself up in Ireland....

Find random Irish person, make them say power shower. Makes me smile every time.

[Aelfoak]

Yeah but look at all that Guinness you can drink LOL

[Iris]

Top tip for cheering yourself up in Ireland....

Find random Irish person, make them say power shower. Makes me smile every time.

:lol:

It's fun to make people from Scotland say 'curly wurly'.

[*Rain*]

Yeah but look at all that Guinness you can drink LOL
Great Idea.

[Moon Daughter]

Waaaaaaah! :wah2:

I always thought I didn't particularly like England. Then I had to leave it, and now I'm a stranger in a strange land...a strange green land where people speak this crazy unpronouncable language and have an odd fetish about shamrocks.

I feel so far from home. :(

How long do you think it would take me to swim to England? What are my chances of dying a horrible, cold and wet death before I get halfway?

Sorry if I'm getting you guys down...was just wondering if anyone else knows how I feel.

Lol "I'm not getting you down, am I? Life, don't talk to me about life..."

Karma for anyone who gets the quote. :)

Hey, that's a good idea for a thread in 'Just Silly' *cue little lightbulb*


this past summer i went on an archaeological dig to Egypt for 2 months. once we arrived and i found myself in a small village in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by deserts, armed men. a psycho instructor, and with no passport ( was taken away from me), i was asking myself many times if there is a way to escape.
sadly, i realized that making it without anything through the desert would not happen.

( i managed to escape 1.5 months after the arrival...with 4 other people)

[Seren_]

:lol:

It's fun to make people from Scotland say 'curly wurly'.

Lol. I love being married to a Scotsman. :nyah:

Edit to add: But I have some idea of what it's like. Living in Scotland was like a whole different country. Which technically I guess it is, but you know what I mean...