To emigrate is not easy. You land on another dam and that dam’s geese are definitely different from anything you were used to. They look different, they sound different, they walk different and they buy different. There are different rules and regulations and it’s a different goose who decides who may swim where.

The upside is that all the geese in the strange dam are sort of equal, and you will be picked on should you misbehave at this new dam.

There are obviously many other strange geese just like yourself. Other dams are different: they welcome strange geese, but only those who can contribute to the system. There are very few geese that are allowed to eat food they didn’t catch themselves.

And for the most geese there is a process to follow before they can become – to some extent at least – a familiar geese on the strange dam. A strange goose will always stay a strange goose to some degree, but it is usually the chicks, who are raised as familiar geese, who become familiar geese.

It is also important to choose the right strange dam to land on, because some wild geese are wilder than others and might be looking down on strange geese for the foreseeable future and make it difficult for them to find their own swimming spot.

However, the dam that we landed on has so many strange geese that it’s sometimes difficult to distinguish between strange geese and familiar geese.

But the geese on this strange dam welcomed us. We now feel so much at home here, that we would feel like strange geese if we had to return to the dam where we came from, as was the case on the day of the strange goose …