LANCE YOUR COMING HOME!!!!! *dances*

Your fan Cat

very interesting... i have wondered that these past few days. i don't think it will be the same, but i hope we will have as much fun, if not more! i have missed you these past 6 months. i'm glad you are coming back, but i'm also sad, because i don't think i'll be able to see you for about a week and a half! i'm going to california for spring break. and will we even get to see each other that much? i have so much school and i just get so over whelmed! but i am glad you are coming home.

nuka jane

Hey...

I wish I had answers for you.  I have found the toughest thing about transitions is often returning home... you're right for the past six months you have experienced things that no one around you is going to understand and the truth is you might feel tired and don't really feel like making an effort to explain it... I remember (and in no way am I trying to say my experience in Japan is anything like what you have experienced these past few months) but I remember people asking me, "So Jo, how was Japan?" I would often be at a loss at what to say.  I usually would end up saying it was a struggle and a blessing and I grew a lot.  Then I would call friends who had been in Japan with me so we could process together what we were experiencing.  This part you're experiencing... they call it "re-entry" and it's part of reverse culture shock.  The beauty of it is though what you said in your blog... you will enrich the lives of others because of the changes you have experienced and in turn they will bless your life.  Give yourself time and space to grieve.  You're experiencing a significant loss but I also know that you have gained so much in the process.  I am not trying to tie up your feelings and put them in a neat little package... you can't find closure for certain life experiences no matter how hard you try so do what you need to do and give yourself as much time as possible to do it.  The good news is you are surrounded by people who love you so much and they will help support you during this time as best as they can if you let them.   

Yeah...so this is what you were writing at the office!  Well, all I can say is that those of us who were with you for the last 6 months are here when you need someone to dump on about re-entry, culture shock and all that...and that the people who weren't with you, love you very very much and they want to understand.  Sometimes good intentions come across as not-so-good feelings, but hopefully you'll meet with a lot of love and true desire to know what you went through.  You're right, you can't totally make people understand what you went through, but you can do your part.  I know God has big blessings for you in your time at home!

Love ya, little bro...write soon, ok?

How are you, sweetie? I remember you and think about you How are you, girly girl?

you come back at home, huh what are you doing?  feeling? are you missing Ukraine? try to say NO