Speaker 2:                           01:54                     And I was like, it's only three years. We'll finish the contract and come back. And it's been 14 years. They passed the five year mark in Kuwait. I truly believe if you go past five years, that's it. You're a lifer. It's true way like it's embedded. A lot of people love living here. I mean they have so many, it's easy. It is x and then it's really easy and you get comfortable for it with a certain lifestyle. Right? So here the three years I was supposed to stay in go and it's like, to me it's like it's automatic and I've covered another three years and another three years. So somehow being here wasn't as bad as I thought was going to be. And most of the time it's an easy life here. You already have people helping you all the time, you know, you make good money, it's easy to have like a nanny and do your own wash.

Speaker 2:                           02:39                     You don't have to do anything. That's true and you don't. And some nannies even cook and they can, you know, prepare at least the lifestyle is easy. You make good money, you start to get accustomed to certain things that you would do here that you probably don't do in the u s or anywhere else that you've come. Relocating comes with its own stress. 100 we have, we can't deny the fact and being an expat myself and also working with other ex bads is that when you first relocate, there are so many variables that you have to keep in mind and it's also possibility of getting stress and depression and especially if you've never done it before. Like for me, I came back here but I was born here a long time ago. Of course I don't remember it, but still somehow coming back here was a little bit that felt like there was roots for me.

Speaker 2:                           03:27                     You know, I always admired like Americans and Canadians [inaudible] all over the world. They come here and they'll, I mean at least I speak Arabic, like there's other people that don't speak Arabic. So it must be terrifying to be able to come to this part of the world and not know what to expect. Especially when you leave your family behind. Like the biggest thing for us, we all come here, we don't have family, we've left them behind. We've loved our friends, our roots. We've left the streets that we know in the, you know, everything is familial and, and now we're in a new place. We don't even know where we're going to live. What are we going to do? How are we gonna like our friends? So relocation is very important, especially for people.

Speaker 1:                           04:05                     Can you think it's really tough for college students even when you're a college student in the states and then you&

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