This is something I did not experience last year, No the temperature stayed the same the whole semester. Maybe if anything it got warmer.
I like this cool weather thing, it encourages me to be studious.
But with the warm weather fading my memories are also slowly start to fade.
The smells the feelings that were so vividly etched in my mind when I returned home are not quite as vivid anymore, but they are still there.
They come up in the oddest of times.
And then there how Uganda changed me.
How basic thoughts and actions will never be the same
I'm walking to school right now, and just realized today, that while it takes the rest of west campus 10 minutes to cross the road, it only takes me 5, because when your in Uganda, you go when you can go, you don't wait for the perfect opportunity, you go and if you have to stand in the middle of the road while a car goes by, oh well.
Probably not the smartest move, but a change that is etched in my mind.
That's what happens when you live cross culturally though, you leave part of your mind part of your heart there forever. Never again will you be 100% American. You realize, that God has not given us just America, but the whole world. The American way in no longer the right way, but the American way.
You will look at your life differently when you return from the global south/ third world/ lesser developed countries.
I'm so thankful
No comments:
Post a Comment