Technically this blog name is no longer true, since we got back to Australia on Saturday. So, some thoughts on our time 'there'...and coming back 'here'. What we're adjusting to:
* the power staying on all day (it's amazing!)
* being able to wash an apple under the tap and then eat it... no bleaching or peeling
* ditto brushing our teeth with tap water
* going outside without slathering on the insect repellant
* sleeping with no mosquito net
* walking on footpaths
* being clean! Dust here will never have the same meaning
* not shaking hands with every person we greet...in fact, not greeting people on the street at all
* things workly smoothly - transport, supermarkets, customs inspection at the airport...
* having lots of 'stuff' in our lives again - that we lived just fine without for a year (except maybe the coffee machine...)
* the time difference...I'm writing this early morning after sleeping for just 3 hours in the night. I'm waiting until my body gets ready for sleep at northern hemisphere bedtime.
Cathlin
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2 comments:
looking forward to seeing you! :) welcome back
Zel told us some time ago to take a peek at your blog & so we did that quite often through most of the past year. We SO enjoyed reading of your experiences, especially having worked in Africa ourselves! and could identify with some of them! (Although where we worked was not quite as primitive).
It will be quite strange not to occasionally read of your adventures!!!
You'll probably find you go through a kind of "reverse culture shock", as it is sometimes called, for a while!!
Happy settling back!!
God bless.
The J's.
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