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When does the leaving feeling hit home
Question: When does the feeling that it’s finally happening hit?
We’re leaving in a week and the Party is planned for this weekend. We have been saying goodbye to people for weeks and it still has not hit home that I’m leaving the UK for good! I know we’re working like dogs to finalise things but eevn so this can’t be right, can it? Am I odd? I now don’t think it will feel as if it’s a final move until January and quite time in Sydney Thoughts and comments appreciated Dinky Leave for Sydney on the 1st November and arrive, via America, on the 19th November |
For me it saying goodbye and take off. No going back then. Family and wife was in tears.
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Originally posted by bondipom For me it saying goodbye and take off. No going back then. Family and wife was in tears. Dinky |
Its starting to sink in now for me. 5 weeks to go, and i think it "clicked" when i finish work.
As Bondi says though......the airport can't be good. When i left for 8 months my mum was crying. Hate to think what it will be like this time :( |
Re: When does the leaving feeling hit home
Originally posted by Dinky Question: When does the feeling that it’s finally happening hit? We’re leaving in a week and the Party is planned for this weekend. We have been saying goodbye to people for weeks and it still has not hit home that I’m leaving the UK for good! I know we’re working like dogs to finalise things but eevn so this can’t be right, can it? Am I odd? I now don’t think it will feel as if it’s a final move until January and quite time in Sydney Thoughts and comments appreciated Dinky Leave for Sydney on the 1st November and arrive, via America, on the 19th November Saying that though I got some snide comments from somewhere last night and it has just strengthened my resolve to make it no matter what.Nothing and nobody will stop me now from doing something I should have done 18 years ago. We have less than 2 weeks before we fly out to Perth.:beer: |
Originally posted by Dinky Mmmm, family want to come to Heathrow and say goodbye. Not sure about that as you could be right. Reminds me of my Mum and Sister being it bits as I went off to Uni all those years ago! Dinky Still, diff'rent folks, diff'rent strokes. It all depends on what suits YOU. (My opinion, which is free and worth exactly what you paid for it - this is a good time to be selfish and decide on what suits the emigrees best.) :D |
Originally posted by Dinky Mmmm, family want to come to Heathrow and say goodbye. Not sure about that as you could be right. Reminds me of my Mum and Sister being it bits as I went off to Uni all those years ago! Dinky |
Re: When does the leaving feeling hit home
Originally posted by Dinky Question: When does the feeling that it’s finally happening hit? We’re leaving in a week and the Party is planned for this weekend. We have been saying goodbye to people for weeks and it still has not hit home that I’m leaving the UK for good! I know we’re working like dogs to finalise things but eevn so this can’t be right, can it? Am I odd? I now don’t think it will feel as if it’s a final move until January and quite time in Sydney Thoughts and comments appreciated Dinky Leave for Sydney on the 1st November and arrive, via America, on the 19th November Roll on 1st December! |
We were OK at our leaving do, probably because we were so up beat and positive and excited about the impending move, however the morning we left was a different matter all together.
We were living with my Mum and had hired a car to drive to Heathrow from the NE of England. Our closest friends came to wave us off..........and that was it. We exchanged really personal momentos ...which I couldn't look at for crying. We all cried on and off for the whole 7 hour journey. So for us it wan't until we were on the road to the airport that it really hit us WE WERE REALLY EMIGRATING. Gill and Rob |
The leaving feeling didn't really hit us until a couple of days before we left the UK - washing up one evening and that was it - couldn't stop crying all evening then - but I guess it had to come out. We have been here 3 months now and it sis urprising how fast those feelings of "oh my god what are we doing" disappear. Early days I know but missing much at all.
Just go with the flow of emotions - its all part of the emigrating process. Good luck. Dawn |
Re: When does the leaving feeling hit home
Originally posted by Dinky Question: When does the feeling that it’s finally happening hit? We’re leaving in a week and the Party is planned for this weekend. We have been saying goodbye to people for weeks and it still has not hit home that I’m leaving the UK for good! I know we’re working like dogs to finalise things but eevn so this can’t be right, can it? Am I odd? I now don’t think it will feel as if it’s a final move until January and quite time in Sydney Thoughts and comments appreciated Dinky Leave for Sydney on the 1st November and arrive, via America, on the 19th November Then the feeling of relief as the plane climbed to over 14,000 feet and out of range of the shoulder launched SAM missiles that were supposedly going to be used on an attack at Heathrow at the time. Then, order some G&Ts, start drinking and let the adventure commence... |
Didn't really hit me till I was actually here and on the way to my brothers house. I was thinking "Well, this is it this is my new home now - shit!!"
Diane |
I can remember lying in the MASSIVE bed at a hotel in singapore...(to say they are all so tiny you would think they would make the beds tiny.. they know how large the rest of the world is then!!!)
thinking ... I feel a bit in limbo here. It didn't hit me until we actually arrived at Perth airport. Then for a few weeks afterwards I would suddenly stop and think "oh my god, I'am in Australia" It wasn't a pleasant feeling either, more like a panic attack:confused: |
I arrived here straight from North America, it was the 90's but people had frizzy hippy hair, batik clothing, bare feet, all I could think of was the hippies you had heard about in the UK. It was so weird, like being in a era you had heard of but never seen. I wanted to run, honestly run back to the airport. I would have given anything to have gone, but we only had $800 bucks between us but I can still remember feeling like I had taken a big hippy overdose of something.
Fortunately things have moved on a bit now tho :D |
Originally posted by dotty I arrived here straight from North America, it was the 90's but people had frizzy hippy hair, batik clothing, bare feet, all I could think of was the hippies you had heard about in the UK. It was so weird, like being in a era you had heard of but never seen. I wanted to run, honestly run back to the airport. I would have given anything to have gone, but we only had $800 bucks between us but I can still remember feeling like I had taken a big hippy overdose of something. Fortunately things have moved on a bit now tho :D |
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