Now, as time has passed and I have rediscovered this blog, I decided I may might as well try to continue the semi-intellectual musings of an inner poet gone rampant, or silent, as you would prefer.
For just a quick update, I left South Korea in July '07, toured Europe for a bit (about a month), and then returned to my "home" in the US. Now, please keep in mind, my home in the US was not a place I have ever been, visited, or desired to go to before. The reason for my sudden new travel to a grass-forbidden part of the country was as follows: my parents retired there. Not having seen then for longer than a month in over 6 years, it was time for me to visit, even if it was in a desert that made me wish to fly into the sky so I could touch the damp moisture in the clouds.
Once upon arrival, I promptly and successfully fell into re-aligning culture shock. To wash out this term a little more, for lack of better words, re-aligning culture shock is equivalent of moving out of a country for about two years, and then returning to the same country but in a part that you have never seen or experiences before, and that is as different as could be possible from where you lived previously in that country. That was Santa Fe, New Mexico. In that little world, I had to "re-align" with a set of values and systems that were reminiscent of ones I knew prior, but completely different in form and function. Thus, the culture shock part.
Anyways, my flatmates just got home, so more later....
