Heading back to the real world

I'm not sure I could be away from home for 7 weeks.. I doubt my family would survive without me, LOL. The longest I've been away is for a weekend, and that was hard enough. Seemed like the moment I left I started missing everyone. I'm sure you're really glad to be getting home! Does that mean we won't be seeing you around here anymore?

I think I would feel really anxious and also some excitement at the same time. I would feel uneasy of the unknown and what's to come but also eager for what I'll be adding to my experiences also.

I lived in Germany for thre years and had several jobs that took me away for varying degrees of time up to 3 months. I hated leaving but once my journey was underway I was fine. You adapt to your circumstance and sometimes it's nice to not be home. Not always though. Coming home was always great. I'd pack the night before and would urge the car, train, plain or boat to hurry up. I remember once in Herford in Germany having to go for a walk as I was ready an hur before the car came to take me to the airport. That's when I learned how to say "welcome" in several diferent languages as they were all posted in a school window. Curiously though "Welcome" in English translates as "F*ck Off"! I think that it was a comment on the British military who were there in large numbers then. Right now I'd be looking forward to home and family. Enjoy and safe journey.

hi greenmoo sounds like you did have a great time but I bet you will be happy to be back home again. I know a little of what you are saying as I just got back to Gold Crest after having spent 20 days learning how to walk again on a twisted right knee from a bad fall right in front of the elevator here at Gold crest. broke my nose and blaced my eyes but the knee oh myG pain agony so now I am pretty well recovered still some pain but thankfully the pain pills stop that and at least I can walk again and care for myself again. odd you seem so isolated in a rehab hospital as its so much pills and physical therapy and thw outside world is going on just fine without you.so now I use a walker and walk slowly and carefully checking the floor in front of me as I go. lol odd how we think we are so important only to find that life goes on just fine without us at all. lol

Outside for a long time,miss most is his own family.Ha ha ,I also had more than a month on business in the field,when home of that day of,I feel how much joy and happiness ,because I will soon and family together.Bless you!

I miss my family,I want to eat my mom's cook.but I can see them once a year. everytime I go home, I am so happy,everyone is so nice,and the food are so delicious.

I was away from my home for two weeks this last summer. I came home for a day or so, but the rest of the time i was a few hundred miles away, doing Federal census in a town I had only visited once before. I missed family and all that really was here to be missed was hubby and my adult son who lives with us. It felt really strange.

going off to college, and we didn't have electronic media to get in touch, only letters and the occasional phone call

I hope that you have really enjoyed your seven week residential course. It is always sad saying goodbye to the people known in the location and then a bit strange to be heading back home. You have made many friends and leaving them isn't easy. Understandably you have mixed feelings going off home. When I was a university student I went to live in the Netherlands for four months. I stayed in a house share with other students and went to courses three times a week. I loved seeing St Nicholas Day and having a Christmas party. Then it was back home and it was challenging catching up with all I had missed. The end of year exams were difficult to revise for and I had to borrow study notes. I stayed away just over one year on my trip around the world. I came home on crutches with a poorly leg after falling down a drain in Malaysia. It seemed cold weather when I got back home. Much had changed in the time that I had been away. I had a hard time when I got back because I was missing my travels and home seemed seem to be home anymore. It took me months to get used to being home again. Good luck with your homecoming.

I would be totally happy to return home....I don't like being away from my home and things too long..I am away from my family alot as my daughters both married military men and they live far away...my son however lives close and I miss the pieces out of my little granddaughter when I am gone!

Since I've gotten married, I haven't had to leave for very long. When I was young, I liked living with most other families better than my own, only my city cousins made me really, really want to go home and one other family. My city cousins were so distant from each other and the other family didn't eat real food, didn't even have milk in the house, just soda. So if the family was close and ate real food, I felt closer to them than my family for a little while. Take care