Cheers to Good Wine!
It's also Halfway House for me. My year in England is halfway over. I have mixed emotions for sure. I am in the middle of an experience of a lifetime. I am learning/seeing/trying so many new things; I am growing so much as an individual. I am making memories that will last until my memory is no more.
On the other hand, I will get to go back to the life that, with the help of so many other people, I have created. The play button will be pressed and my life that has been on pause for about a year will continue. Not exactly as before, because I will bring a good number of 'subtle' changes with me, I'm sure, but I can't help thinking sometimes that I need to hurry up and get back to my life.
I'm also a bit nervous to come home. A friend told me that culture shock hits the hardest in coming home from a period abroad. When you go somewhere new, you expect things to be different, and because of this, it is an exciting and novel experience. When you come home, you [possibly irrationally?] expect things to be exactly as you left them. It's easy to forget that life continues even when you're not there. People come and go, houses get remodeled, new love is found, love is lost. These sometimes big, sometimes small changes are the things that are so unsettling and strange to come home to. You have to realize that you have missed things that you once would have experienced, or seen being experienced by others, had you not turned your life in such a completely different direction. It is also important to realize that this is not necessarily a bad thing.
Today I went to Portsmouth to go to an amazing shop called Whittard of Chelsea. They sell everything tea. Over Christmas, Mikah and I found a teapot and mugs for Mom, and some mugs for Mikah there. I decided that Mikah needed a teapot as well, and I needed a set too! What better souvenir to take home from England that all things tea? So I found some lovely teapots, teacups and mugs, along with some lovely lovely flavors of tea!
Cheers to Good Tea!
I have a complaint! I really hope you got the 'Afternoon Blend' and 'English Breakfast' or whatever they call afternoon tea, because I don't like Earl Grey. That means that you have a lot of tea right now. Either that or I am going to take the breakfast one that is in your storage here, where I can get it any time I feel like it...
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