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I have been procrastinating writing this for quite a while now. I have been home for nearly three weeks, and this final blog post has been looming over me through the excitement of seeing my family/friends again and getting re-adjusted to American life. It was as if once I wrote this final blog post, my experience would have been officially over…and I wasn't quite ready for that. You'd think that after being across the world for seven months, I'd have so much to say about my experience and what I've learned. However, when it came down to it, I found myself at a loss of words. Upon returning to the US, I think, in a way, I had painted this picture in my mind that the reverse culture shock would hit me like a rock, and I would immediately recognize changes in myself upon getting adjusted to my old lifestyle. Of course, there were immediate shocks, such as how clean our country was and how organized the traffic was. The pine trees where I live held a new type of beauty af
