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.
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