Pardon That Interruption
I’m still here. Well, not here in China anymore but here on this blog.
I apologize for the preceding drought of updates. I would say that these past couple of weeks have been busy for me (which they were), but more than that I just didn’t feel like blogging. The stress of finals, unfinished homework, and packing, all topped off with me losing my wallet in a Hangzhou taxi two days prior to departing didn’t leave me in much of a writing mood.
Now all that is over. I’m back in the States, and while in China it had felt like I had been there for an eternity, now it almost feels like I never left home. I find it both comforting and yet unsettling that despite my experience, thing seem to be pretty pretty much as they always were.
How exactly is one supposed to feel having returned from something like this?
After returning home from an extended stay overseas, I always feel depressed at how easily I fall back into my old habits and forget about the new ones that accumulated over the previous weeks or months. It’s always one of the driving factors for me to head back out overseas.
But more than that, welcome back.
↓ Quote | Posted December 24, 2006, 6:12 amI felt nothing but a burning desire to go back. But aside that, I was never able to fully understand how I “felt” after the entire experience. “Enlightened” to a certain extent, but that doesn’t fit the bill. Needless to say, I’m pretty sure I know how you are feeling.
↓ Quote | Posted December 26, 2006, 6:07 amOne of my friends told me when surroundings change, you change. You adjust yourself.
Welcome back and Merry Christmas to your family and you.
↓ Quote | Posted December 26, 2006, 6:37 amDisorientingly undisoriented.
↓ Quote | Posted December 26, 2006, 8:53 amTimotarou: yes, that’s pretty much how I feel.
Jared: I wouldn’t quite say I have a “burning desire” to go back…
↓ Quote | Posted January 1, 2007, 12:05 pm