hi guys Simon here again so today's vlog is being asked for by one of my
subscribers France berghoff and the suggestion was a blog like to see how
your wife settled in the UK and what you learned and tips to make the transition
of a tie partner coming to live with you in the West as seamless as possible so I
thanks for the idea is a great idea but it's going to end up being a load of
logs because there's quite a lot of things happened over the years that I
could probably point to point out to you and save you the hassle of things that I
went through again I can only speak from my experience with my wife and we're
based in the UK so when I first brought my wife over it was on a tourist visa we
weren't married so excuse my girlfriend of the time so she had a six-month
tourist visa and the web gets through the later on visa processes and get
married all the rest of it so initially when she came to the UK I'd already I've
been living in Thailand for two and a half years I came by Omnia get the case
all sorted out and work and money and things and pay for it to go back to the
tourist visa so I wasn't really my head was not in the right place when I
brought her across for the first time and I made a lot of mistakes and forgot
didn't even think about things you know just common sense things so I I just
briefly made a list of some of the things in I'll need to go over but the
key points I can think of was temperature as soon as we came at
the airport it was 10 degrees and my wife was frozen shouldn't only warm
clothes did another coat in Thailand it's 15 18 degrees at night up in say
Chiang Mai I suspect as cold as it gets in Thailand so she came out of the
airport it was like ah wheezing cold and I hadn't even thought about it so the
temperature in your country right clothes food didn't only toy food oh
then you've got the language barrier which causes a lot of communication
breakdowns might I was reasonable but my wife's English was very basic so
misunderstandings what each other was talking about there's that things like
wife lonely because she had no one to speak to in Thai in a new country no
friends though we did have one friend but she lives 120 miles away so family
immediately you know she's missing the family so had to sort out communications
telephone luckily i had internet a pc so she could communicate that way but that
was a big thing i luckily had but if he didn't have it could be a problem
culture is different in your country people of different religion you know
she wanted a temple go to a temple 50 miles away near example for me so
there's loads of different things but I hadn't even took into consideration so
France you were you're spot on it there is a lot of planning to do for bringing
the Thai person to your country you've got to put your head in the mind in
their minds that you gotta put yourself in their shoes what do they need the
basics and I completely balls that you know no thai food in the
house temperature we had to go out the we came in late at night luckily got a
lift from a friend of mine to get us home next morning I had to take my
girlfriend sign to the shop and buy coach boots gloves she never won in
their life she didn't even know what they were until I bought them and
plumped them on their head and that she thought was amazing it's great what is
this camera luckily I think I had a camera hi this is another vlog wall
together Thai women love selfies love photographs love videos oh good so it
seems just like snapping pictures of everything for the first month the
different climate weather is huge different in a different to Thailand I
don't know about your countries in a date and time of year is well in your
country what the weather is going to be like oh there's so much and then there's
once youth we then went back to Thailand Got Married there's another vlog
actually the marriage and all the ceremonies links and in the village the
once we got married settlement visa to the UK come back college learning
English getting all the proper paperwork so my wife then could work getting her a
job getting her a bit of independence and earning their own money even
learning about the different money as well transport so many things you have
to teach your tie partner and this is twelve years she been here and I'm still
teaching her stuff and she's still learning
oh my god some minefield so a great subject thank you so much for that idea
and i will do a few vlogs on it i mentioned not in that visa for as long i
just put out which was as you get rubbish i know but I put it out anyway
if you'd rather laugh at the item i said i was put on charge gadget to do a
review a rule no raft power power supply portable power pack which are generally
gadgets when you're awake what i'll do is i'll do the review on us well on
holiday I've tried all our might even do the review from there used to be
sunshine and yeah what do that review that so give you updates on that and
that's about it anyone else got any ideas of logs it would be helpful
because you do wouldn't we start in the shower you get a bit of a mind blocking
or sure what people want to talk about all listened to so any idea is still
welcome please drop them in the comments below that'd be great and i'll catch you
next one so by for night and take care
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