Posted by: globalorama | April 15, 2008

I am an Expat. Everywhere I go.

Even in Amman. The last time I was in Jordan, Sep. ‘07, I walked around the streets, and went for a hookah. Only to realize that I am the expat. In my own country. Worse yet, do I still have the right to call it my country if I only visit once every blue moon. The last time I went to Jordan before that was in 2002. Those were the only two since 1997. It did not feel right. While it doesn’t feel like home here in the states, Jordan did not either.

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:( i don’t wanna feel that way when i go there!!
i’m really scared of my trip to Jordan (don’t know when yet!!) people keep on describing buildings i’ve never heard about before, not to mention the new generation the family that i didn’t meet yet :( .. i’m sure it’s not gonna be easy.
P.S: thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOO much for posting, i really missed this place :)

hmmm.. it is sad when one feels total estrangement while at home. I’ve been away fro two year and am visit in less than a month. As much as this trip seems exciting to me, i am afraid of also feeling estranged…

reminded me of a post i had on my very old blog titled الغربة عنواني.. i feel that being a pali will always make me feel an expat!

I haven’t been away that long but my first trip back home was after exactly one year being away.. believe me it was nooooooooo vacation at all!!

I felt exactly the same when i went back to Palestine after leaving to do my undergrad in the USA. My first trip was 2 years after my departure, and even then, i was a stranger among my friends. My subsequent trips weren’t any better now.

I think this is the course of life, and it is what it is. After all, it has been 10 years for you dude, and it would be odd (to say the least) if Amman or any place stayed as it is frozen in your memory. Life goes on.

hi

this is my email r-hazaa@hotmail.co.uk sokran

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