Back in the US of A

I have now been back in America for 3 days. I arrived home Tuesday the 5th of October after about 50 hours of travel including a 16 hour flight over the North Pole from Dubai to LAX. I am still way off schedule and continue waking up at 3 am every morning. Besides the strange sleep patterns, coming home has been a lot easier than I anticipated. I think this comes from me trying to act as normal as possible, like the old me. I have a feeling this is going to come back and bite me in the ass thought. I have almost been feeling like the last two years didn't happen. I have heard other volunteers say this but always thought "well that's silly, how can something this major feel like a blip?" I have a theory though... I think it stems from all the stress and everything associated with coming home; fears, anxiety, expectations, etc. So when us returning volunteers actually get here our brains are pudding that can't and won't process more than the present moment.

I have also realized that I have, due to lack of decent Internet connections, posted far too few stories of my service. My pledge is to post one new story a week as i read through my journals from site. This pledge serves two purposes. 1) It gives people more stories from my service and 2) It might help me process and remember just how important my time in Lesotho was to me.

So, keep checking in for new posts and new stories.