back at home
"I am back in Singapore now, and it looks exactly like I left it 4 years ago."wait...I wrote that in a letter to a friend when i was at the airport last night waiting for my parents and brother to land at the Changi International Airport. It was 1 am and i must have been hallucinating because the moment we drove into the city...i realized how much Singapore had changed physically. There seems to be perpetual construction going on in my country...everyday, some new bulding is going up, some dirt is being dug out to make way for the Mass Rapid Transit Line. how can a country that is so small find so many ways to re-invent itself physically but not mentally?
It's surreal that I leave for Malaysia in another 18 hours. I feel like I haven't had time to properly reflect on the past 2 months of my life, and yet i can't stop because there are so many exciting things happening right now. :)
One thing i did notice is that in the past, whenever I came back to Singapore for visits, it was like my life in Singapore would kick back into action and the one in America would stop. And I always felt frustrated because I felt like I was living 2 lives. 2 different persons in 2 worlds which never seemed to intersect. People in Singapore do not ask me about what i do in the states, and vice versa...my life in Singapore doesn't matter when I am in Michigan. So if feels strange to be back this time and feel like I have finally connected these 2 sides. My family came to MI and saw my life in America....while my life from America is merging into the life i had here.
Back to packing...
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I used to think the same way that our live back home and our live in the states are two separate lives, but i came to realize that this is not true. It's all in the back of our minds, our values, goals, and the things that we are passionate about are all there... the only difference might be the people [and even this disappears when they visit *excited that some pple will soon visit uae*]
Good luck.
You know I felt the same when I came back from the US to my little town in Germany. The people here don't go abroad for a job or to live that much.
You had your own live abroad without all those people and then you come back and nothing has changed but you fell changed. but if you tell the people here what was going on with you nobody understand and want to understands that. Only these people who had similar experiences.
Really I had my culture shock when I came back to Germany not when I arrived in Michigan. Because in Michigan anyone knew that you are new.
It's kind of weird but you will get used to your new life so quickly which is kind of strange also.
Anyway, I just wanted to say good luck with your beginning new life in KL and keep posting about it.
Hugs, Alex
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Enjoy your new adventure babe, you never stop going do you!
I promise to at least try to send a postcard or two :).
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