Changes

In an hour's time, I'll be heading down to the house of Riyan's cousin who's leaving to Saudi Arabia this Saturday. She's married to a Saudi Arabian man and they both have 6 lovely (and I really do mean lovely) kids. The older kids probably have a bigger recollection of how living in Saudi Arabia was, compared to the younger ones.

It'll be a big change for the kids, I suppose, moving back after getting used to the Westernized world, leaving their friends behind. It's always tough migrating somewhere and leaving everything familiar behind. It's hard when the prospects of you ever meeting your friends again seem slim for several years, and even harder when the cultural differences are vast apart. When you're so immune to socialising the Westernized way, you'll be handicapped in a more restricted society, especially for the girls. I believe there'll always be the pros and the cons in every situation though. I'm sure they'll settle in over time in their own ways. It's a matter of how quick or how slow.