Being back in Oz for good feels strange by it's very normalcy. It feels like things should be different, but they are so much the same that it's easy to believe that none of the last 10 months even happened.
I am finding it a bit difficult to talk to people about my experience - when they ask "How was Tonga?" I feel obliged to just say "Yeah, good..." and then let them talk about their own stuff. Luckily most people (myself usually included!) are more than happy to talk about what's going on with them, so I haven't been probed too deeply!
Guess I'll just process it in my own time.
There's lots of great aspects to being back. I'm enjoying being back in my home, with my husband and our menagerie. It's been great getting stuck into the veggie patch, and seeing how all the plants have grown. Not working is also really nice - I could totally get used to that! I'm loving cooking in my own kitchen, loving having access to awesome ingredients like goat's cheese and sheep's milk yogurt, and grabbing a soy flat white from the local cafe every morning!
But I do feel like this is a sort of limbo period. Or maybe transitional is a better term to describe it. And there's not many times in life when you're consciously in transition - most times it's something you look back on and recognize in retrospect, rather than as it's occuring around and within you.
I'm really interested to see how this is going to play out, actually!
2 comments:
SOY MILK! [drools]
Glad you are living it up back home! I can't wait! I do however suddenly have so much work to do, i don't know how I';m gonna get it done!
Yeah, I was like that at the end - it was like a mad dash to the finish line, I was so crazy busy for those last few weeks! It really helped to finish things on a positive note though, by feeling like I was actually Getting Stuff Done, y'know!
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