A Major Catastrophe

Yes it would be a major catastrophe in my life relocating to a different country with the culture different from my own but I would hold dear to my heart a saying my mother taught me at a young age.  Never forget where you came from.  Keeping this in mind the three items I would taken with my would be a group picture of my Mom and siblings, our family Bible, and a notebook.

The picture represents family.
The Bible represents our foundation.
The notebook would continue the journal of things that went on along this journey in case this separation happened again, my children would also have a road map.

I think the only thing that I wouldn't be able to replace would be the photograph and would be hard for me to separate from that only because a picture tells and reminds us of many stories told long ago.  It is also reminds us of the struggles we went through to stay as a family.

An insight gained was even in a world where everything is so freely the idea of giving up something i hold as being of value is so devastating I can only imagine how families feel when they must relocate in foreign land where the dominant culture looks upon them as being second-class.