when will it stop spinning?!

today is the beginning of day six with being home and i still feel like everything is spinning out of control around me. i have to constantly remind myself to take baby bites with everything i want/need to do. i've seen a handful of people and have had some wonderful visits, but there's still more people to call and visit yet, bags and boxes to unpack and a town to familiarize myself with again. .. and to a lesser extent, american culture.

i read my friend justine's blog entry...she spent 18 months in southeast asia and she made a comment about looking at things around her with different eyes. i totally can relate to that...i have a completely different perspective now on the people around me. i definately have had spurts of anxiety and a general sense of feeling lost. i have a lot more empathy for those folks traveling and/or relocating to a foreign country... it's rather overwhelming at first.

i can't help but look around me and think that the sky is fake. it's too blue and the white puffy clouds are too white and puffy...it looks fake. the fact that i can see the horizon and thousands of trees in the distance is a little overwhelming too...and the time it takes to get anywhere!! i'm not used to sitting in a car for 40 minutes just to go somewhere to go grocery shopping. and yes, i am sleeping with two blankets while wearing sweatpants and a t-shirt...i came back home to a thirty plus difference in temperature compared to here and taipei. i'm not looking forward to the colder weather!