Back home...strange.
Well, after all the waiting, counting down the days, I'm actually home. 30 hours of travel later, I was in pretty severe culture shock coming back to the States. After 5 months out of the country, I feel like I'm seeing everything here as a visitor would. This is a good thing, though. My time abroad has given me an entirely different perspective on the country I call home, a greater sense of objectivity. I see America's many admirable aspects in much clearer relief now, but I also understand its faults more acutely. This puts me in a difficult position; I'm happy to be home, to see my family and friends, but I feel like I'm in a kind of limbo. I don't know where I belong.
I know this is normal for people who've gone through such intense experiences--reentry is always difficult. It's going to take a while to sort things out. For this reason, I'm going to keep this blog up, for now. Hopefully it will be a place where I can write down memories as I'm looking through pictures or more thoughts about how the trip affected me. I might not update it much, but feel free to keep checking back occasionally. I'll also keep the link to my pictures up, and I'm working on getting all of them online!
posted by Abby @ 12:34 PM
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ABBY! i miss you.
glad you're home safely.
do give me a call one of these days.
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i would love to hear from you.
<3linden
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