All Entries Tagged With: "culture shock"
You can’t handle the truth…
I must apologize, I’ve been withholding the truth a bit. I love having a blog but there are times where I really feel that it is a huge burden; the last 4 months was burdensome. Let me back up - I started journaling 11 years ago to cope with an emotional time of my life. [...]
Abrupt Transitions
Dhal Bat Days - Vol. 1
8/30/08
Oh my God – what have I done? I kind of feel like it’s my first week at college again where I miss my friends and my comfortable life and wonder how the hell I’m ever going to make it.
I arrived in Kathmandu after 27 hours of travel from NYC [...]
New York State of Mind
Sometimes the hardest battles fought are the ones in your head. After three months of being in the US trying to figure out how to carve out a new existence for myself…I feel like I’m starting to lose the battle. New York is a hard place – and even more so when you don’t have [...]
From The Outside Looking In
Photo: American Grocery Store
America – my home country…my passport, my culture. I’ve been gone from it for 15 months and am now re-entering it with a fresh pair of eyes. I have to first start out, I do love my country. It is my heritage. I love our freedom, I love our rights, I love [...]
Time Goes By…
For those of you that are actually reading this blog on a regular basis (seriously…are there people that really do that?), I’m sure you have some questions on your mind. I’m guessing that one of those questions is “What is she doing now that she’s back in New York?”
All I can tell you time goes [...]
Same-Same, and Not So Different - New York
Shit…is it all a dream – it feels like it was a dream. I feel like I just fell down some weird rabbit hole and Alice is offering me tea. Arriving back in New York is beyond describable for me. As I walk around New York it feels as if the last 16 months were [...]
Finding my way Home
Reality – what is the definition? I read once that “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” That will give you a headache if you think about it too hard. However what really hurts, is when someone says to me “You must go back to reality sometime.” I hear [...]
Addicted
I have a dirty little secret…well, I have many…but no need to get into all of them. I have an addiction, one that I crave, I just can’t get enough of it – I have to get my fix else I’m not a happy person. It’s hard to find my fix – and it certainly [...]
Transitions
My mind has been very pre-occupied lately with the current transition that I’m making from SE Asia to Europe. I wish I could say that it’s been easy – but it hasn’t. In fact, every time I sit down to write about Greece, I get more preoccupied with thinking about the transition. I have written [...]
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