When you leave your family and friends behind you need to learn modern ways to deal with sadness and loneliness
Crossing borders is more than a physical act. It is a mental and emotional one which involves tremendous challenges to the aid worker.
We must leave our partner and family,friends and familiar environment behind, and cope with a barrage of modern pressures and demands. You learn as you go, or on the job training,the languages, the culture, and differing value systems and world views. Time brings answers,you bag acclimatised, find your way around, and make friends,bag to know the local shops, from time to time find familiar products you longed for that say “domestic” and settle in. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com