Journal 32: Far From Home

To arrive in a hostile and unfamiliar place like Vietnam would be difficult for anyone to handle. One would get along by making the best of things, and trying to make friends within the ranks, and to get used to the situation. A similar experience I have had is moving to Taiwan, and starting school at PAS. For me, it wasn't really a "hostile and unfamiliar place", but it was not what I was used to, and not where I wanted to be. At first I just tried to fit in and just get used to it, because I was most likely going to spend a lot of time here. But then I gave up on trying to be like everyone here, and on trying to be "positive", where we could frolic in some meadows and vomit rainbows. With only a few exceptions, the people were nothing like my old friends, not necessarily in a good or bad way, but just completely different. I guess I could have tried to adapt to it, but the way my old friends were has become a part of who I am and I don't think I am quite ready to relinquish that part of myself yet.