Sometimes this adjustment back to my home culture is harder than it seems it "should" be.
I arrived back in the USA feeling like a foreigner.
I have figured out how to:
- get a working mobile phone
- set up my home utilities
- given up my German driving license (which allowed me to drive anywhere in the EU) for my Oregon driving license
- drive more slowly on highways
- drive to the shops
- buy groceries for more than 2 days
- tip wait staff
- get around Portland.. well... somewhat
- get exercise
- change the way I eat since what I ate overseas is the expensive stuff here
etc...
I just today canceled the VOIP phone service I used overseas. Another step in the process of feeling like the USA is "home"
... but in reality...
Nowhere in this world is my home. My home is Heaven. I long for that kind of home where belonging is easy.
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