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  • Kiko Ora

    living abroad for the 2nd time

    publié par Kiko Ora dans forum Le monde 

    It's actually a hard topic to comment on. I do dislike those who hang around in their own circle, but recently, there are days I feel that I might understand why they do it.

    I used to live in London. I was there for qite a few years. When I was in London, I didn't like to hang around in the Japanese comunity there, because in which were a lot of people who had no interest in learning English, and they just wanted to stay among themselves, saying that they weren't sure if they would be accepted by the world outside of the comunity. Although not everyone were like that, but many enough were, and as a result, I kept quite a distance from them. I mean, if they worry about feeling unsure whether they would be" accepted" or not, why weren't they trying to find out? If they weren't bothered to try, then what on earth were they doing there?

    I am in Kiel, Germany now. A new commer, been here for 3 months now. And will be here for while a while. Maybe forever.

    I hardly speak German at the moment and know no one. I've been quite alone, and dealing with many things including the feeling of being alone very alone. Yes I have been learning the language but it'll take time for me to be able to speak it. I wish I knew where to meet people and everything, then again there is a language barrier.

    Then I recently come to wonder: If I contact an expat comunity in Kiel somehow (although I don't know how), which seems to exist even though it's small, for I feel the need to speak with someone time to time, would I become like those from the Japanese comunity of London?

    It might spell my defet if I start hanging around with the foreign nationals here in terms of meeting the nationals here, but then if the defet saves me?

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