Back Stateside
Well I've been back in San Diego for a week now after 8 weeks of travel. It has been an adjustment and I'm so fortunate that I have the entire month of August off before I return to work and school. I need some time to process what I've been through and come down off my travel high... My experiment to blog daily in Mexico didn't actually pan out. I was too busy with classes, homework, sightseeing and immersing myself in the culture to remember to blog here every day. But I have so many rich memories of my time abroad. Ironically, I injured my knee jogging with my dog on my first day back so I've been holed up at home for almost a week with my leg elevated. This has kept me from driving so I haven't had to venture to the grocery store or rejoin mainstream life yet. Despite this I can tell that I am experiencing some of the signs of reverse culture shock that we discussed in our last MX class. There is so much incredible waste in the US and the consumer culture ...