always a hard part of the long term travel experience. trying to sum up your amazing experience in a nutshell... trying to remember everything and everyone you met... and trying to articulate it to your friends back home.. and really... just trying to get use to being "back".
it's all just weird. and it's no harm to my friends here at all... because they have been great and it's been great seeing them. but it is just hard to readjust.
so just like returning from south america... there are some things i think of that i like about being back in boston....
- CHEESE... yes... cheese. i didn't realize how much i missed cheese until i had nachos... and burgers... and even just a handful of gorgonzola crumbles. yes... it was a handful... straight up... no salad or sandwich. just... gorgonzola. yum!
- beer... good beer. a choice in beer. even the best of the beer in southeast asia doesn't compare to good beer back here. and the best in SEA i would personally consider are... dark beer lao, leo, and mandalay strong.
- fahrenheit... i can adjust from feet to meters and miles to kilometers but i find it so challenging to adjust to celsius, even though we are the only country in the world (i think?) which uses fahrenheit. it's great to say that it's 50 out and people don't look at you strange.
- hot showers... and ALWAYS a hot shower if i want it to be. and not to mention... great water pressure.
- western toilets... no need to master the squat anymore...
- spitting is not super popular here... so i no longer here the "wind up to the spit" (what i like to call it) which would make me cringe every single damn time i heard it. i never got use to it while many of my travel friends had.
- set prices for things... although things are WAY more expensive here (i swear the price doubled since i left in september).. i don't need to negotiate any price... and there's no foreigner price.
- wifi connections... they are pretty good... stay connected for a while... and are generally fast. and when they do disconnect.. good ol' 4G backs me up
those things are what come to mind... i'm sure there are others, but those are the first things right off the bat.
there are a lot of things i miss about SEA but i will save that for another blog... sometime. in the meantime i'm trying to keep busy by job searching, reading, meeting up with language exchange partners, getting connected with the couchsurfing community here, researching volunteer opportunities, etc.
but one thing i def. miss about SEA... smiling and waving and saying hi to people without them thinking i'm crazy (like they would here). i know i chatted with travel friends about this... but my goodness even making eye contact with people here is a challenge. sigh... welcome back to the western world, i suppose.
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