Tamie Davis is an Aussie living in Tanzania, writing at meetjesusatuni.com.
Tomorrow we will have been in Australia for 2 weeks. My goal on several days has been to get to the end of the day without crying. I have not been very successful. My tears are not so much homesickness as they are the result of overwhelm. But today I […]
This is not a whinge! It’s an attempt to put some flesh on “culture shock” and what it means to lose competence in your own culture. Here’s how it looked on one morning of our first week ‘home’ in Australia. (The tenses are all over the place – because that’s […]
One evening last week as we prayed at bedtime, Elliot said to me, “I think ‘We’re all in this together’ should be the theme song for this transition.” The next morning as Callum snuggled into bed with me, he whispered, “What about ‘Livin’ on a prayer’ for the transition, Mama?” […]
On our last home assignment, when I felt dismembered and displaced, God put me back together through some precious songs, especially one that reminded me of who he says I am. While our dear friend Will has offered us the prayer that, “May this return be as good as that […]
Today is a month until ‘wheels up’ as we’re calling it. Arthur is still flat out trying to finish things at TAFES and working out what he will need to let go of, but I stopped my commitments weeks ago, in order to mental load this transition for our family […]
As I try to help our children process our big move, I have revived the Elliot the Dragon stories as a way of teaching through story as we walk to school. However, it is Callum who is particularly tickled by them at the moment, so I have been telling them […]
In conjunction with the other resources I’ve put together for TCKs, our calendar, our farewells, our transition journals, and our practice of lament, we are using some activities from Amy Young’s book Looming Transitions: Twenty-Two Activities for Families in Transition as we prep for our repatriation to Australia. It’s a […]
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