A few days ago I was walking down the road with Zoe and I couldn't help feeling a little lost. The street was busy with people, smog so thick it was like a fog on the city, and horns were honking in their Indian sing song type voices. Suddenly she reached her sweet little arms around my neck and hugged me and I was reminded that even in the midst of life a half a world away from the only home we have known there is a home that we bring with us. Each other.
Some things are exactly the same no matter where you are. Zoe still gets excited over the moon. Joshua still wants to be snuggled for a few extra minutes right when he wakes up and asks for snuggles for "one more minute" before he goes to sleep no matter how long he has been cuddled. Luke still wants to play video games. Samantha still likes to hold my hand and I still like to give Ben a hug right when he walks in the door from work. I still want to find time to draw and paint. I want to become a better person than I was when i got here. The things that make us who we are are don't leave us just because we leave one place for another.
Today I am not homesick. I feel lost and yet also peaceful.
So many crazy things are happening in our lives right now and yet there is something that brings peace to my soul. I was listening to a song by Reliant K the other day (Never Underestimate My Jesus) and thinking about how sometimes when the world doesn't make sense, it's OK. The world doesn't have to make sense for me to find and have peace.
In other ramblings, I am having a crazy hard time here trying to figure out why no one understands my accent. Don't they know that I DO NOT have an accent? THEY do! A friend here took me grocery shopping and I was SHOCKED to find that she spoke to all the grocery store helpers in ENGLISH!!!! I have been speaking English to them for weeks and they have never once understood me! It is time for me to break out my British accent. I am not kidding. The other day I asked for a pressure cooker for 5 minutes. Finally, I hung my head and pretended I was British. Immediately I was understood and taken directly to the item in question. sigh...
If only I had discovered this sooner, I may have had a much easier time here. :)
By the way, I need to make a correction to an earlier post. When I said that corny is "brilliant" here, what I meant was that "brilliant" here means "wonderful, great idea, or amazing!" However, anything that I would consider corny in America (examples are kissing your own biceps and winking in music videos) are considered "cool" here. I love it!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Happy Monday~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Some things are exactly the same no matter where you are. Zoe still gets excited over the moon. Joshua still wants to be snuggled for a few extra minutes right when he wakes up and asks for snuggles for "one more minute" before he goes to sleep no matter how long he has been cuddled. Luke still wants to play video games. Samantha still likes to hold my hand and I still like to give Ben a hug right when he walks in the door from work. I still want to find time to draw and paint. I want to become a better person than I was when i got here. The things that make us who we are are don't leave us just because we leave one place for another.
Today I am not homesick. I feel lost and yet also peaceful.
So many crazy things are happening in our lives right now and yet there is something that brings peace to my soul. I was listening to a song by Reliant K the other day (Never Underestimate My Jesus) and thinking about how sometimes when the world doesn't make sense, it's OK. The world doesn't have to make sense for me to find and have peace.
In other ramblings, I am having a crazy hard time here trying to figure out why no one understands my accent. Don't they know that I DO NOT have an accent? THEY do! A friend here took me grocery shopping and I was SHOCKED to find that she spoke to all the grocery store helpers in ENGLISH!!!! I have been speaking English to them for weeks and they have never once understood me! It is time for me to break out my British accent. I am not kidding. The other day I asked for a pressure cooker for 5 minutes. Finally, I hung my head and pretended I was British. Immediately I was understood and taken directly to the item in question. sigh...
If only I had discovered this sooner, I may have had a much easier time here. :)
By the way, I need to make a correction to an earlier post. When I said that corny is "brilliant" here, what I meant was that "brilliant" here means "wonderful, great idea, or amazing!" However, anything that I would consider corny in America (examples are kissing your own biceps and winking in music videos) are considered "cool" here. I love it!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Happy Monday~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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