well, i am back from Taiwan. I came to love it later in the trip.. the problem before was the neighborhood we were in. Bit of a problem now though. even though it was only 3 weeks, it felt a LOT longer than that. And the shock of coming back "home" is far greater than anything i experienced while in Taiwan. Seeing another white guy on the street was a cause for staring and questioning him. I miss bellfruit, beetlenuts, 711, and the way nothing was boring. the food, i also greatly miss. it was cheap and healthy.
shock started in as soon as we transferred from China Airlines to Delta. the fact that it is snowing here does not help matters much either. Things are really starting to irritate me here now, with luck, a busy school semester will drown those things out for a while. I have been back for a day, and i hate it here. I hated it in LA when we hung out during the layover, i hated it in Atlanta, and I hate it here. it's the little things, but there are a lot of little things. how do you deal with this?