It is like the last 26 months never happened to me, like my entire service happened to someone else. No one here in America cares and I am shocked by how mean people are here, no one is relaxed at all. I think Christmas and the Holiday Season might have an adverse effect on them, everyone out and about is rude and not nice. I am mainly writing this for other PCVs who understand what it is like to come home and be wrapped in the bubble of family and friends. Though my heart did swell when I saw my dad at the airport gate in JFK and I realized I so wanted to be home with my family. I find myself going back into old routines and old-selfs, someone who is unrecognizable to my Burkina-self. I find it hard to relate to a lot of people.
My mind goes off a lot of times in conversations thinking about nothing. The one great thing about Americaland is that I can finally people watch and no one knows or cares. In Burkina I was the one being watched but here I can watch and judge silently, haha.
I miss my kids and Lagou, Didier the tailor and I cannot wait till Christmas when I surprise them by calling and wishing them a Happy Christmas. It will be great to speak french again. I find that I am given weird looks and yelled at when I accidentally say a french word. oh well. America is about conforming and I guess I will slowly conform and lose Burkina little by little. I do not want to though.
When all of this holiday stuff is over I will start the job hunt looking for something in the development field and hopefully get back over to West Africa in the late summer/early fall, fingers crossed!
I promise to go back and fill in all the empty months of this blog over the next month and now that I am back with faster internet, I will include MOVIES and MORE PHOTOS!!
Happy Holidays!!
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