tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2311943055243587440.post8149707690324808861..comments2024-03-06T14:12:03.858+04:00Comments on Susan Al Shahri سوسن الشحري: Coming Home Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03509378404066967124noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2311943055243587440.post-23772228256276985792014-01-02T12:20:38.175+04:002014-01-02T12:20:38.175+04:00Thanks Hedwig! I'll look at the video ASAP.Thanks Hedwig! I'll look at the video ASAP. Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03509378404066967124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2311943055243587440.post-25000423679516608062014-01-02T12:19:30.500+04:002014-01-02T12:19:30.500+04:00Thanks for your input! Your thoughts aren't fa...Thanks for your input! Your thoughts aren't far off from mine! My bus was between Ottawa and Montreal! There are things I love about Oman and things that drive me nuts. Same goes for Canada. I suppose it's about being content with your own bubble wherever it may be. Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03509378404066967124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2311943055243587440.post-55035508647845349352014-01-02T12:06:04.515+04:002014-01-02T12:06:04.515+04:00Wow. I read this and feel it is the exact opposite...Wow. I read this and feel it is the exact opposite of it myself (except for the Canadian apologies---I still miss that;---and wondering about if home is an idea we make up or a place we just never found)). Whenever I was in Canada I wondered, is home really where you grow up>}} : The cold would get to me despite my love of the phsyical appeal of seeing snow falling down. The people would be themselves with me-politely prejudiced in a way that cuts more than Omani open rudeness I guess. I love things there, I hate things here, and the same back and forth. I'd be waiting to touch down and feel the softness and anonymous-ness? of abaya and niqab. To laugh and go crazy with my Omani girlfriends in Muscat in our majlis/living rooms with no one dating some loser who doesn't deserve her and crying all over one not worth it, or drinking to have fun ect.... To be around people who care what I think and do, not just what I have or who I know. Parts of me still wish for an ideal small-town Canada, without redneck guys to harass me or threaten my family, where we have fall fairs, candy apples, a straw bale mazes. Or a sophisticated Canadian city like Victoria or Montreal, where art and history and little book shops and pattiseries are everywhere, and almost everyone is nice... but that without the police that tapped my phone, or the neo-nazis that attacked me and my friends when we were just walking home. <br /><br />And Oman. A little village in the mountains without people using religion that they don't even know or care to read about as an excuse to take away women's rights, where everyone helps one another, and are proud to have a colourful history that guides but does not limit them...<br /><br />Home is what you make I ultimately think. What you carry with you. No matter where you go. It isn't geography. It isn't exact, like a science.<br /><br />You have the advantage of being able to create for yourself and any of your children the home that you carry with you in your ideals of what that should be, having come from more than one place;). <br /><br />-Loved reading such personal writings. Almost sorry to intrude with thoughts I am thinking of my own as I read.Omani Princess (not Omani...yet)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11738377563210269837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2311943055243587440.post-14279344512297187002014-01-02T09:15:16.142+04:002014-01-02T09:15:16.142+04:00LOOOOL! B.Vompkin and P.Vompkin!
Ali LOOOOL! B.Vompkin and P.Vompkin! <br /><br />Ali Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2311943055243587440.post-44112609408901405952014-01-02T08:56:03.423+04:002014-01-02T08:56:03.423+04:00Reading this made me happy and sad. Have a wonderf...Reading this made me happy and sad. Have a wonderful new year! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2311943055243587440.post-46865193139321523852014-01-01T21:43:33.804+04:002014-01-01T21:43:33.804+04:00Welcome home Susan and the best wishes for 2014! H...Welcome home Susan and the best wishes for 2014! Hope to enjoy more of your excellent writing in the coming year.<br /><br />The phrase that should describe people with mixed backgrounds is: "Third Culture Kids". Check out this video: https://vimeo.com/41264088 It was a thesis project of one of the students from Georgetown University.<br /><br />Happy New Year!Travelallergyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07201624525565688899noreply@blogger.com