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So I guess yesterday was Labor Day?
I totally forgot. I spend most of my time with a Canadian, and the internet at my apartment isn't working. It's weird. How easily national holidays are forgotten.
It's also weird to hear about everyone going to school, or back to school. On Graduation Day, being an alum didn't hit me. I figured it would when the end of August rolled around and everyone was going back to school and I wasn't. But when I read about school starting again on everyone's Facebook pages, I just thought "Oh yeah, people go to college."
I guess it's just weird to me that I can fall into a routine here, so completely removed from how I measured my life in America. And how normal it feels. Now Labor Day sounds weird to me. People being in college sounds weird, it just makes me feel old. I try to imagine my friends at Temple, sitting in the Atrium, auditioning for the season, taking classes in Barton...and I'm so glad I'm not there anymore. I don't even understand how they can do that day in and day out.
So, like everything in life, there is an upside and a down side. Upside - I feel normal, and settled, and like I have a life. But did this normalcy occur at the cost of my American life?
Can I imagine a restaurant without metal chopsticks and kimchi? Can I imagine a city with expensive taxis, not adding an "eee" sound at the end of everything I say, not bowing when I'm thankful, not taking my shoes off when I enter someone's home, not buying soju in the grocery store, no Paris Baguettes, and no temples? Yeah I guess I could. But after just a month and a half, it's getting hard. And it scares me, like everything else in life.
I totally forgot. I spend most of my time with a Canadian, and the internet at my apartment isn't working. It's weird. How easily national holidays are forgotten.
It's also weird to hear about everyone going to school, or back to school. On Graduation Day, being an alum didn't hit me. I figured it would when the end of August rolled around and everyone was going back to school and I wasn't. But when I read about school starting again on everyone's Facebook pages, I just thought "Oh yeah, people go to college."
I guess it's just weird to me that I can fall into a routine here, so completely removed from how I measured my life in America. And how normal it feels. Now Labor Day sounds weird to me. People being in college sounds weird, it just makes me feel old. I try to imagine my friends at Temple, sitting in the Atrium, auditioning for the season, taking classes in Barton...and I'm so glad I'm not there anymore. I don't even understand how they can do that day in and day out.
So, like everything in life, there is an upside and a down side. Upside - I feel normal, and settled, and like I have a life. But did this normalcy occur at the cost of my American life?
Can I imagine a restaurant without metal chopsticks and kimchi? Can I imagine a city with expensive taxis, not adding an "eee" sound at the end of everything I say, not bowing when I'm thankful, not taking my shoes off when I enter someone's home, not buying soju in the grocery store, no Paris Baguettes, and no temples? Yeah I guess I could. But after just a month and a half, it's getting hard. And it scares me, like everything else in life.