So just like that our guests of 6 months move on. The mother will stay in London to live with her husband the daughter has decided to return to Ukraine.
It’s been a largely positive experience scattered with moments of helplessness and frustration. In honesty I’m not sure how I feel it’s a strange sensation.
Despite giving it our best there is an underlying feeling of failure punctuated by uncertainty for them. There is guilt of the relief to have our house back to ourselves, balanced by the knowledge that we took them in at a time that’s not exactly been stress free for us.
Hopefully we’ll get that Hollywood finale one day, when we visit them somewhere and they are in a better place.
There’s hundreds of Ukr refugees in the hotels around where I work. I see lots out walking around with children and strollers. Many are settling in as immigrants.
So just like that our guests of 6 months move on. The mother will stay in London to live with her husband the daughter has decided to return to Ukraine.
It’s been a largely positive experience scattered with moments of helplessness and frustration. In honesty I’m not sure how I feel it’s a strange sensation.
Despite giving it our best there is an underlying feeling of failure punctuated by uncertainty for them. There is guilt of the relief to have our house back to ourselves, balanced by the knowledge that we took them in at a time that’s not exactly been stress free for us.
Hopefully we’ll get that Hollywood finale one day, when we visit them somewhere and they are in a better place.