Travel throughout different cultures can be a frightful journey or an enlightening, awe inspiring and memory building experience. There are so many ways to approach travel: the direct route, the guided tour, the back packers paradise or "adventures are us". Adventure is at the core of this family, guided tours are for the faint hearted, for those not willing to explore the back streets and get off the beaten path. When presented with a choice, heading out into the great unknown without guides is far more exciting than following the same path tread by tourists day after day.
This same mind set can be applied to life itself and for anyone who knows our family, life was created to be enjoyed, experienced with adventure not just lived. However, how does a change of this magnitude occur with the least trauma, emotional distress and long lasting pain? Moving back to Australia has so many mixed emotions involved that there is no easy way to express them all, in fact each family member feels something different. So what do we do? We build a RAFT.
For this journey of moving countries we have selected several tour guides to walk with us and make the path less treacherous. These guides have "been there done that" and have words of wisdom to help with the journey. David Pollock the author of "Third Culture Kids" is one such guide. His wisdom has been the tour guide for many a parent or individual preparing to move cultures. One of his suggestions to build a RAFT.
Affirmation
Farewells
Think Destination
For practical demonstrations of what a RAFT looks like stay tuned for the next instalment of this blog.
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