tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553388201961125907.post5802974735747460685..comments2023-09-05T03:06:09.343-07:00Comments on Borders Aside: With someone elses words.bordersasidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14142674938117338592noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553388201961125907.post-5265919221173304342010-04-09T18:15:28.733-07:002010-04-09T18:15:28.733-07:00Gringa I wholeheartedly agree
Gringation- this is...Gringa I wholeheartedly agree <br />Gringation- this is so true and yet at the same time they have so many wrong ideas also. <br />Gail to funny about your kids. <br />And Jill- That was my exact question. When I read this I asked my husband if he had read anything about him living abroad because its so right on. He really likes C.S Lewis but wasnt sure. Ill have to look it up sometime.bordersasidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14142674938117338592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553388201961125907.post-24546858079648981982010-04-09T15:09:49.474-07:002010-04-09T15:09:49.474-07:00Like the previous three, thanks for sharing that, ...Like the previous three, thanks for sharing that, Amanda! It gave me goose bumps. Did CS Lewis ever live abroad? I didn't think so, but he sure seems to understand how it is. <br /> I'll have to check out the book sometime. Thanks again!Jillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00300316400083765147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553388201961125907.post-58180644915804296272010-04-07T12:04:31.396-07:002010-04-07T12:04:31.396-07:00Oh my goodness--this is exactly how it feels! I w...Oh my goodness--this is exactly how it feels! I want to read this book too. <br /><br />My kids (4 adult children in the US) say that I live on Mars. When they say good-bye to me at airports in the US, it's like I'm getting on a space shuttle and blasting off to Mars, where there is no mail service, very sketchy phone service, and the lights go out all the time. And the internet randomly goes up and down all day long. And....well then, you're out of contact with the outside world, sometimes for a really long time, at least that's the case where we live. The internet goes down because it's too windy, too rainy, or barely windy, or barely raining, or....it just goes down and who knows why. <br /><br />Whenever my kids visit us here, I tell them the whole time, if you forget something here, like if you don't pack up all your stuff when you fly back, well, you know, I can't mail it back to you! You know that slogan for Las Vegas, "whatever you do here stays here" (something like that), so I tell my kids all the time "remember---whatever you forget here stays here."Gailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15813307059508655924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553388201961125907.post-75309785288603660092010-04-07T09:35:34.893-07:002010-04-07T09:35:34.893-07:00For me the second part speaks to me more than the ...For me the second part speaks to me more than the first. I was able to dive right in (probably bc I already knew the language pretty well, plus I was in school.)<br /><br />The whole thing about feeling ignorant about where you come from... been there! I think most Mexicans know more about the USA than Americans do. Fascinating.<br /><br />Thanks so much for sharing!! This was awesome.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553388201961125907.post-47090557005379301922010-04-06T20:20:54.683-07:002010-04-06T20:20:54.683-07:00"...thinking about the amazing adventure of g..."...thinking about the amazing adventure of going to another planet, and about his chances of returning from it. What he had not thought about was being on it. It was with a kind of stupefaction each morning that he found himself neither arriving in, nor escaping from, but simply living on, Malacandra; waking, sleeping, eating, swimming and even, as the days passed, talking. The wonder of it smote him most strongly when he found himself, about three weeks after his arrival, actually going for a walk. A few weeks later he had his favorite walks, and his favorite foods; he was beginning to develop habits."<br /><br />EVERY sentance in that speaks to me. EVERY ONE. It's nice to read other blogs where people are going through the same thing as us - and really cool to see a book where the author understands as well. I'd like to check that book out for sure - thank you for sharing :)Gringa-n-Mexicohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03248889552344481041noreply@blogger.com