Welcome home

It's been awhile since my last post and I usually post on my tumblr but I think I'm going to start writing here instead.

February 23, 2010 I arrived back in South Korea to go to work, and over a year later, February 28, 2011 I returned to the states. A year went by incredibly fast and sometimes it seems like it was all just a dream.

I was coming back over excited to see my friends and family and to be surrounded by America again. Friends of mine who have gone abroad for a long time, a year or more, and gone back warned me that reverse culture shock may sneak up on me just because we don't expect to feel any shock since it is "home." Sound advice I thought, and I arrived back in America with no expectations on how life would now be.

It was odd...for the first couple of days I honestly would look around self consciously half expecting people to stare at me because I was a Korean looking person speaking English, but of course, no one noticed. I was appalled that I would have to pay $3.00 for a bottle of water at the SEATAC airport...and had to let my eyes adjust to the number of overweight people and people who didn't care what they looked like and walked around with their ass crack hanging out of their dirty sweatpants. Welcome home!

As of today, it has been three weeks since I've been back and I can honestly say that it has been a process...