Etre Depayse e

Et je parle de moi maintenant...

A word very confusing to me while I was living in France was the verb: "depayser" which can be applyied to yourself "etre depayser" - something like: "je suis Depaysee, tu est depaysee, etc"
The definitions that I found in the dictionaries are(i'll write them in french - as they are the only that can really describe the maning of the word):
Depayser = A. Transporter quelqu'un hors du pays, du lieu où il est ordinairement implanté. (Quasi-)synon. déraciner; anton. enraciner, rapatrier.
=B. Changer le décor habituel ou les habitudes de quelque chose ou quelqu'un
=C. Au fig. Déconcerter quelqu'un en le transportant dans un cadre inhabituel, en modifiant ses habitudes. (Quasi-)synon. dérouter, désorienter, égarer; anton. acclimater, familiariser. La vie du grand séminaire ne me dépaysa nullement. Elle était bien telle que je l'avais imaginée (BILLY, Introïbo, 1939, p. 38).

Bon...So it means taking one out of one's country, in another country he is not used to, changing one's habits, etc.

For me is more than this - Depayser means that moment in time, when , after living abroad for a while - I like the "new country" - I feel that I belong in the "new" country, I don't want to leave anymore. I am ...."depaysee" from the first country and "payser" in the "new" one. Like baptizing.

It's not about not missing your home anymore or being afraid of going to your "official" home, but actually enjoying, belonging(being "a l'aise"), being of a different nationality, having had changed.

I felt it quite strongly in the last months and I realized it during this last weekend when I spent time with Alma and Dan, friends from London that visited me in Dublin, and I had to be a "guide" in my "new" country.

I realized it while I was....
talking about Ireland
walking in Dublin
climbing in Howth
being at Glendalough at the upper lake
listing to the Brazen Hussies at the Brazen Head
understanding the accent
and just being in Dublin....

Thanks Alma & Dan for a great weekend - one to remember in Ireland.
I am 4% irish (1 year out of...25) but i feel 90%

this is "etre depaysee"...