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2007-12-04 09:57:09
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Dealing with repatriation

Five weeks ago, I left Australia, where I had been living and going to uni the past three years, to move back ‘home.’The first month was not so bad, but I think the last week it has really hit me…and I am starting to feel very frustrated and very depressed. Adding to the usual issues of trying to adjust to moving again and starting a whole new life, I’m trying to search for a job, which as a recent graduate, is bloody hard. On top of that, my parents have just opened a new business so they are extremely busy and I hardly see them, my younger brother has gone off to university overseas (and I desperately miss him- he’s my TCK buddy and understands me when I get like this) and the friends I have here are really more like acquaintances, which makes me long for my Aussie friends who were like my second family.I tried to open up to my mother but she just told me to “stop feeling sorry for myself” and to “put myself out there.” I wish it were that easy. I can feel myself starting to spiral into depression, and it’s stronger than I have ever felt before. I think now that I have finished university, I am faced with the question of what on earth to do with the rest of my life, and I’m so incredibly overwhelmed…I wasn’t expecting the move to be easy, but I wasn’t expecting it to be this hard either. So I was wondering how you fellow TCKs deal with/ have dealt with repatriation?    

August 7, 2008 | Filed Under General Forum | 2 Comments 

Hi everyone! TCK from the Middle East!

Hi everyone! I’ve been meaning to join TCKID for absolutely ages but I kept getting distracted/forgetting my password but finally, here I am (albeit in the middle of my finals but what a great way to procrastinate!) So thought I’d introduce myself if you didn’t already know of me through the TCK group on facebook! My name is Maya and I am of Palestinian origin (although I have never been there- TCK issue #1!) but I have the Jordanian and Australian nationalities. I’ve lived in 5 countries in my life so far, mainly in the middle-east so it’s been Kuwait, Jordan, Australia, Egypt and Qatar- but have moved to Jordan and Australia twice. I’m about to move back to Jordan for the third time in less than a month. I’m finishing my undergrad degree here in Australia after spending 3 amazing years here but I am moving back ‘home’. Given that the first time I was only a toddler and don’t remember anything, the only time I have ever lived in Jordan was for only one year and that was my last year of high school. So I’m quite anxious about relocating back there as I don’t really feel it’s home except for the fact that most of my relatives live there and besides I only have a handful of friends there too. Plus I have to deal with not being a student anymore and the dreaded “J-word” (a real adult job- eek!)   My friends here in Australia are completely laying the guilt trip on me, by saying stuff like, “I can’t believe you’re leaving”, “this is so unfair”, “what am I going to do without you?” so I end up having to console THEM :P But I know you guys would understand. I’m feeling excited, exhilarated, anxious and a little scared because my life is going to change so drastically (I’m finally going to have a car for the first time- at the ripe old age of 21 lol) but i LOVE that I don’t know what to expect! Hope to get to know you all more! Maya 

June 12, 2008 | Filed Under Introduction | 3 Comments