Reflection

I haven’t been updating my blog to my latest travel trips for a long time. Grand Canyon trip was in February, which is going to be 5 months when I made that solo drive. I’ve been doing a lot of traveling around US, more places that I have ever been before in my life. And right now, reflecting on my past one year.

Being able to see the world, to experience new culture, to learn life skills and to meet new people. And also see things at a different perspective; thinking out of the box. There are more things and instances that I have encountered which has made me a person whom I am today. I have been taught lots of lessons and experiencing new things, be it from my personal experience or the people whom I interacted with. Now the one year dream ‘vacation’ is almost coming to a temporarily stop. A few weeks from now, I’ll be back to the place where it all began. Back to study life and projects.

One year just flew past by so quickly. I still remember the first day when I touched down on this foreign land. Everything was quite different from home. It was a culture shock to me at that time. Now that I am already blend into the environment and lifestyle here, I will soon leave this place back to the place where I came from. Of course it’ll be nice to be back home to meet up with family and friends. At the end of this year abroad, moving back can be just as stressful and it also involves another form of “culture shock”. The stress of moving back is similar to the initial relocating into the United States – banking, insurance, shipment arrangements remain but in the reverse roles.

After spending the year abroad, things; familiar surroundings; and people from back home may have changed, and once again, I will have to deal with re-adjustment to the environment. There’s nothing to prevent the day from coming.

This post is just some thoughts that came to me as I still can’t get imagine that I’ll soon leave the place which is now a familiar sight. But I guess I’ll just have to enjoy my remaining 2-3 weeks in US. I truly appreciate the time that I have here in US. Look forward to going home and hope to be back real soon.

Anyway, here’s my snapshot from my trip to Seattle during Independence Day weekend. It was an awesome trip too. (I had the chance to try out Microsoft Surface!!). Shall update it next time.