They are estimating, that pose border of one’s homelands 200 million persons, i.e. a 3% of the world population live. The part of these persons is refugees and they aren’t moving from the country to the country of their own free will. However the predominating generality of people is settling pose border of one’s country more or less of one’s own free will. The number of freely moving people all over world will be growing. People are becoming more mobile, elastic, are extending their ranges and less and less are attached to their homelands. While still several dozen whether even a dozen or so years ago hardly anyone moved to Beijing, Dubai or Moscow, these cities aren’t already too this way regarded ‚exotic’, and companies are sending their employees now even to Mongolia or Yemen. Not everyone from these two hundred million are feeling all right in foreign countries. Before I thought that types of persons completely not being suitable for an emigration existed, at present this way I am already not planting. Everyone can find the space for oneself and not necessarily it must be place, in which oneself. Before the move it is still necessary to realize that longing is inevitable. Not necessarily longing for the archetypal house, rather behind it, what familiar. It as a matter of fact is regarding not only living in foreign countries, but also long journeys. It’s good to think, what they will be longing, for to try to answer oneself to the question, what he can for us sort in the new seat. And to take care of in order can in case of the crisis feel most more probably and more ‚like at oneself’. It is necessary to consider, that settling the simplest matter can last much longer than they are accustomed to it. It is tiring.
In London sending the packet is a visit of few minutes on the post office (even when before many persons are standing), sweetened with smiles and politenesses. In Paris I sent the stupid small small parcel nearly an hour (before me three persons stood) both I heard a lot of growling and barking, that next time I was supposed alone to weigh the parcel and to buy the appropriate stamp in the machine. It is humiliating, when the man is feeling reprimanded like the child, which something did mischief. It is worthwhile setting aside more time for settling office matters for itself, buying train tickets (they at the counter often stand in India even and half an hour, like not longer and he is filling very detailed forms in, when they want to travel by train immediately but up to the B point). It is worthwhile being patient if an opened Internet or a bank account want to be. In Sydney I was surprised, that there everything was finishing through phone, and they are only going to the seat of the bank, how they really must. In Poland next he surprises me, that automatic paying monthly accounts by the Internet is a rarity. I am accustomed, that in England almost it is possible to settle everything through the Internet or the phone what is considerable facilitation, but fresh arrived immigrants can feel insecure, particularly when don’t speak English too well, and the vote into telecommunicationses is included to the Scotsman or the Indian.
There is no perfect country. Unimportant whether the man is moving to Dubai, Mumbai or Singapore – something won’t always suit us in the new seat. And not everyone will be complaining about it alone. Many foreigners are praising the climate in Sydney, and for me the weather was one of the greatest drawbacks of living there. Best I am feeling in London – knead about the temperate climate, without frost and great heat, by it relatively humid (at least still in Paris or Warsaw deciding more often is falling). Spending time searching for defects in the new seat and comparing everything home it is possible to drive into depression itself. Of course it’s good to read about the new country before the trip, but sometimes it to be possible to adopt a negative attitude to something what then is being shown with the untrue or exaggerating the mere trifle. Therefore after the arrival in place it isn’t worthwhile searching for confirming its prejudice, but trying to compare them with reality. And to understand many culture aspects are relative. He can irritate the Japanese man, that in Germany it is so dirty, while the Egyptian will recognize Germany as the ideal of the cleanness and order. Inhabitant of Parises will seem unusually impolite and vulgar to the American, but Chineses can regard residents of the capital city of France as the politest people under the sun. In issues of this type he doesn’t have an objectivity, we are comparing things to the ones which we know, so not always it is worthwhile listening other. And it isn’t worthwhile generalizing – I in Paris met both very unkind and very nice persons (at least I am not concealing that it is one of least pleasant countries, in which I was).
Natalia, Kinga, Ania, Konrad 2c
mybritainpg6 