Boston Boston

So I arrived back in Boston last week! It was quite surreal to find myself back in Harvard Square wandering around and it felt like nothing had changed. I guess the whole city would have had to be re-done in order to surprise me since I'm used to quite a high level of change right now. It felt like quite a shock to be back in Boston and after a week I'm adjusting still, but feeling a bit better. It's strange not talking to every single westerner person I see (which would take quite a while in Boston), and not having that hope wandering around when you're lonely of "oh-I'll-meet-someone-soon", because it doesn't work like that. It's definitely a stranger feeling, feeling alienated in your own society, since when you're abroad, that's considered normal, and you always think that you can always go back to the US where you'll be understood. Here, there are no fall-backs.

In any case, I'm up to my proactive ways by job-searching, joining activity groups and trying to put myself in new situations. With meetup.com, I climbed Mount Washington! That was pretty amazing. It's also funny that I feel more in my element right now when I don't know whats going on, like meeting a new group of people at meetup.com or getting my haircut (badly) in a chinese hair salon while the stylist's whole family is sitting watching me and chatting in chinese. I'm used to not understanding anything!

So I guess I'll see what opportunities come up while I'm back here and just figure out things as I go...