Of homecomings and adjusting

Jun 20, 2009 23:26

Home sweet home. I've been back for a couple of days now, but was too tired and lazy to update until now. I had a major case of jet lag, but I'm mostly over that by now ( Read more... )

culture shock, exchange year

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sakuraberries June 20 2009, 22:41:34 UTC
The language thing was the same thing that happened to me when I got back to the states after having spent three years in Egypt. My English was quite clunky, and it was weird to speak conversationally in English and not Arabic. However, English being my native language, within a week I was babbling nonstop in English, xD.

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bagatellee June 22 2009, 10:59:30 UTC
haha, I kept switching to German phrases for a week or so after my homecoming - "danke" and "entschuldigung" were firmly rooted in my mind, people keep saying those every 2 minutes in Austria :P anyways, good that you were saved from the reverse culture shock, and welcome back... I guess we'll see each other before/during Finncon, I'll be there since one of my favourite authors will be there too.

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