The homecoming when we expatriate for several months can be a bit tiring, especially at the beginning. And we must recognize that some characters do not help much to quickly behind the difficulties of the first week. Top 7 of those individuals who, by their clumsiness or character, you have a little regret being returned.
One that gives you news from the front
"Did you know that the President has changed? "Hell, no, I completely missed! I was a year ago in a wild area called Germany, there has sent me two or three pigeons, but these barbarians ate ... And so what's the story? Steve Jobs is sick?
The wholesale distributor of stereotypesOne, he never set foot in the country from which you come. It does not stop to charge with aplomb flawless, endless litany of platitudes and generalities. No Edward, all Chinese are not small and I have not eaten dog in Beijing.
The living encyclopedia
The opposite of the first: hyper grown, he knows more than you about the history, geography and art of the country you come back. He can not conceive that you have not visited the amazing exhibition of Irkutsk post-communist sculpture, or you have not devoured the Cuban literary production of the last fifty years. The guy ensures the passage of the presence of a large and attentive audience, so that you fully ashamed of your lack of grime culture.
The passionate
He, Japan, there's never been, but it was his dream. He is fluently bilingual, has put tatami in all his house, rolls his own maki and swears by Murakami and Ghibli. Your return gives him a unique chance: he attacks you questions, takes note your answers and do not give you an inch. While the discussion is interesting (though a tad idealized), but what you need is to pick up the thread of your life here, not to relive every second of your life there.
Whoever did not hit you were gone
Often a bar owner who believes good to say "Well, there you go further? ". Well, it's nice not to be curious beast each output, but still, it was not deprived of camembert and baguette for all these years that prevents you from having the best anecdote to evenings. Be quiet in return, agree, be ignored, no.
The ghost
In three years, he has not responded to an email or made a phone call, it was never available for a pot or a restaurant during your annual vacation in France. Nothing, nada, not even a poke on Facebook. But now that you're back, it is frankly inflated that you can not get to the next Sunday barbecue under the pretext of having to find an apartment, register your daughter to school and finish the customs declaration for your move. Well then, you've forgotten the friends?
That you do not recognize
Yet it was a good friend. You have reached your arrival. And there before the beer warms, after a few anecdotes and rhetorical questions, you realize that something has changed. You have nothing to say and you both bored. Beer swallowed you abbreviate the discussion under any reason, promising to see you soon, knowing one another and you will not see you. It's not his fault but it does not facilitate the return home.
The bitterMaybe it did not happen anything good for him in your absence. Always it is that you want everything that could turn out well for you, and let you know by little quips. You'll buy you an apartm
ent? Obviously, you come rich, now that you have been able to exploit the Indians during t
would perhaps not have come ... ". And after a conversation with him, you start to think he may be right.hree years. You're married? It's clear, it was easier for you to find a girl there, yeah, you got out of the misery, she did not have hesitated a long time ... all interspersed with comments on the misery of life in France and the political bullshit. And conclude with a "But now you're back, finished the good life! Will have to toil, you
The hyperactive
Often your best friend - or your mom. She read all about the difficulties of rehabilitation after expatriation and you prepared a program of hell: Monday pool because the sport is good to recover from jet lag. Tuesday evening reunion, "I invited everyone, they will be too happy to see you there even Peter and Sophie rise of Lyon." Wednesday, visiting apartments, "It is important that you feel at home quickly, or you'll have trouble take your marks." Thursday blind date, "But if you know that Sylvie was on Tuesday evening? Listen, I like him, invite her to the movies, it's not good to be alone. "You dreamed of you gently put your jet-lag in comatant on the couch? Too bad ...
Almost everyone
For months, even years, you nabbed the reflex to return to whenever you hear talk French. And even back in the RER from Roissy Charles de Gaulle, you winced every time you hear "Hello? Where are you now? "Yelled in a laptop. It will do you in France, there are plenty of people who speak your language.
