Getting the wobbles!
Oct 18th 2011 | 1:54 am
#16
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From: Saskatoon originaly Stafford, UK
Re: Getting the wobbles!
Hey
A lot of you on this bit of the forum won't know me - I have only just started posting on this bit but post on the immigration and general Canada bit but didn't feel like this post belonged on either of those.
So we are waiting for the LMO to come through (fingers crossed) and my feet are a bit colder than they were a month ago...
We are having friends visit on weekends and when they leave I am thinking that I won't see them for a while and some I know I won't see unless I come back to the UK after leaving.
So whilst the whole adventure is exciting - it's also cloaked by a huge sadness at leaving my friends and family. UK itself I won't miss (don't think I will anyway) but my friends are a different matter.
Any words of wisdom out there?
A lot of you on this bit of the forum won't know me - I have only just started posting on this bit but post on the immigration and general Canada bit but didn't feel like this post belonged on either of those.
So we are waiting for the LMO to come through (fingers crossed) and my feet are a bit colder than they were a month ago...
We are having friends visit on weekends and when they leave I am thinking that I won't see them for a while and some I know I won't see unless I come back to the UK after leaving.
So whilst the whole adventure is exciting - it's also cloaked by a huge sadness at leaving my friends and family. UK itself I won't miss (don't think I will anyway) but my friends are a different matter.
Any words of wisdom out there?
Oct 18th 2011 | 4:42 am
#17
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Re: Getting the wobbles!
I agree with what Crazy was saying with regards to the possibility of our friends circumstances changing.
I'm using this one on my oldest son who is miserable at the thought of leaving his best friend behind. For all we know, his parents could be planning a move to Australia after all.
Family is the obvious other one.
I pointed out to my wife yesterday, that although we are leaving our parents behind, we are taking our family, and FUTURE family with us.
Hopefully our two boys will find nice partners to settle down with in Canada, then we will have their partners and their parents as family, then they might have kids, so on and so forth. Ailsa hadn't thought of that aspect before and it's helped her a lot with the family sadness thing.
But a true friend does not have to be standing next to you to be a friend. I have a friend I maybe see once every 5 years or so. We don't live that far away, we just have our own lives to get on with, but when we meet up again it's great.
I reckon by the sounds of it you'll make plenty new friends in Canada
I'm using this one on my oldest son who is miserable at the thought of leaving his best friend behind. For all we know, his parents could be planning a move to Australia after all.
Family is the obvious other one.
I pointed out to my wife yesterday, that although we are leaving our parents behind, we are taking our family, and FUTURE family with us.
Hopefully our two boys will find nice partners to settle down with in Canada, then we will have their partners and their parents as family, then they might have kids, so on and so forth. Ailsa hadn't thought of that aspect before and it's helped her a lot with the family sadness thing.
But a true friend does not have to be standing next to you to be a friend. I have a friend I maybe see once every 5 years or so. We don't live that far away, we just have our own lives to get on with, but when we meet up again it's great.
I reckon by the sounds of it you'll make plenty new friends in Canada
