Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Just Different, Part Two

Living cross-culturally not only gives one a never-ending series of opportunities to practice doing things differently, it also means that gradually that which once was different becomes familiar. Then when one re-enters one's home country,what used to be normal is now that which is different. It can be exhausting.

A few things I remember being different:
  • having to stop for school buses,
  • pumping one's own gas,
  • reciting the Lord's Prayer & Apostle's Creed in English (and searching the far corners of my brain to remember them), and
  • not having to bag one's own groceries.

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