I lived in South Korea for one year and four months. I have now been back in the USA for ten months. I haven't done anything constructive and I want to return to Korea. I still have friends up there ( Read more... )

So, after 18 years of living overseas as an expat's kid & later an expat across the globe, I am returning to India (my "home") in less than a month's time. I am afraid, nervous, excited - all the emotions I feel usually when I move. This move however is a bit more apprehensive as most family in India would wonder why I would go through a culture ( Read more... )

I was just in Korea for 16 months and I had to go home because I lost my job there, for various reasons. I was very upset and didn't want to stay home much longer than a few months. Now I have been back for about four months and I already want to go back to Korea. I know that their schools usually start in February. I guess it's too late to ( Read more... )

I just got back from South Korea where I spent 16 months as an English teacher. I already want to turn back even though I have been "home" for about a week now. It was great to see some old friends, but it's not the same anymore. My town has changed a lot. I feel depressed. I really don't feel like I really WANT to readjust back here. I am in ( Read more... )

Ha, on the subject of wanting to go home,not wanting to go home i have a question for expats whose contracts are almost up ( Read more... )

How long after you re-patriate did your homesickness for the new county go away-- if that makes any sense. I'm back in Canada but even a year later i'm sooo "homesick" that I don't know how much longer i can put up with it. Maybe a visit would help but it's so expensive to go to the otherside of the world just for a visit.

I may have to quit this community soon -- I'm going home! Well, not 'home,' really, but I am going back to the States. Different state, that's all ( Read more... )

so i just recently got back from my first trip to my native country since settling overseas. and i am really curious--is it always this hard to go 'back home'? (although i felt much more like home was waiting for me here in chile...) it was so stressful! although it was supposed to be a 'vacation'...yeah, not so much. it was kind of fun to be ( Read more... )

Today I had one of those moments where I realised that i have no idea what it is really like anymore in the country of my birth. I have only been away for three and a half years, with pretty frequent trips back, and yet ( Read more... )

So I've been back in Canada now for about 2 weeks. I never thought I'd get so ill traveling to my own country. Everyone talks about traveling to places like India and SEA and getting travel sickness... the food here is way too rich for my stomach ( Read more... )