Appendix B

 

Home Every Year

 

 

            Some people return briefly to their passport country each year, but they never return to stay.  They most often return for a few weeks or a couple months during the time of school vacations, especially if they are teachers or if they have children in school.

            These people usually do not really make any attempt to reenter their passport culture.  They are basically in “vacation mode” while there, perhaps visiting relatives and “getting away from it all” to rest a bit.  They may catch up on the technological changes, see physicians and dentists, update their financial affairs, and so forth.

            However, they never develop any really close relationships.  There is just not enough time to do so.  They pick up where they left off with people there, but the relationships remain relatively superficial ones.