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December 19, 2005 in
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I have been in the States for almost two weeks now and I have found that being in Oregon isn’t as strange as I thought it would be. I still don’t like riding in cars and I miss walking…I think I have been able to successfully tune out all of the loud talkers. I’ve heard them for sure, but I just don’t listen. I don’t know if it’s not weird because I’ve been in Oregon and I’m used to visiting here. Maybe Sacramento will be different? Who knows….
I have been able to do most of the things that I’ve wanted to do. I went to the dentist. I went snowboarding with my brother and might get to go again if I’m lucky…I got to see a lot of friends at church. I haven’t really been able to spend as much time with friends as I would have liked to, but there’s still a little time.
Part of me wanted my trip back to the States to be stranger than it is. I think that I wanted this so that I would know that I really am settled and used to being in Paris. If the States has become weird then Paris is normal…that was my logic. But I don’t think that is true. Maybe both can be weird in their own ways and we can live in the middle ground. Where there will be no completely normal wherever we go, but we just adapt to the little things. Where stability is not found in our surroundings, but in God, each other, and ourselves….Maybe that’s the way it should be anyway?
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December 8, 2005 in
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It’s 6:18am on Thursday and we are getting ready to walk out of the door to go to the airport. We’ve been packing for a couple of days now and I hope that we have everything that we will need…certainly we have a lot of things we don’t need as well.
The reason for this post is because I wanted to really quickly share some thoughts. We haven’t been in the States for 9 months now and I know things are going to be different. I can imagine what things will look like in my head, but I am really curious as to how it will actually feel. Here are some examples…I have only ridden in a car about 20 times in the last 9 months. It’s going to be strange to go everywhere by car. I have only ordered food at a restaraunt in French and it’s going to be weird to not speak French in public places. When walking around the streets or riding in the metro I am freed up to be alone in my head because I don’t understand much of what is being said around me. Not only will I understand everything in the States…it’s going to be at twice the volume I’m used to hearing people talk.
So…all that to say…I’ve heard cultural re-entry is harder than entering a new culture. We’ll see in a few hours.
Published on
December 6, 2005 in
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So I was getting really ticked that Typepad wasn’t letting me sign in for the last week…I went on my computer’s keychain (yes Macs have a program that saves all your passwords..unlike lesser intelligent computers…) and it told me what I was sure was my password. So I returned to Typepad just to be denied again…like a 7th grader asking the hot 8th grader to dance at a school dance in a gym. I was both hurt and frustrated by Typepad. So after some time, I decided, “You know, maybe Typepad’s system is down for repair.” So I gave them some grace.
Today I went back and I was still facing the same password rejection that I had faced earlier…today I was mad…I decide to use the little “forgot my password” button. It prompted me to put in the answer to my secret question…(which I won’t tell you because it’s a secret!) and I got it wrong! I was now furious. So I went back to the home-page to start all over again…I clicked the shameful “forgot my password” button and re-read the question…unfortunately for my pride, I was reading the question wrong. So, within minutes…seconds maybe…I received my password in the mail. And here I am blogging….and my shameful story is now a post on a blog that my stupidity kept me from for over a week. So does Typepad need grace? No…I do. It’s good to realize in the humorous times of life that grace is good…I guess it’s good practice for the not-so-humorous times….
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