What are you doing besides playing on the Planet?

imperfect_cupcake · 10-14-2012, 07:31 AM

organising my leaving do, making a list of stuff I still have yet to submit to college, and a list of things I still have to do to move. writing emails to people to organise stuff when I arrive... when I moved here 10 years ago, I did none of these things. I saved up $1000 by living my my mom's basement, threw everything into her shed, packed four bags and got on a plane. all within one month of deciding to go. there was no time to think or process and when I got here I was completely consumed with culture shock and the excitement of a whole new world.

The homesick and stress settled in later. I did not hit me what I had done for about 3 weeks.

I'm hoping organising everything will give me a bit of a cushion for the reverse culture shock, and returning to something I ran from. I'm hoping that crying in the supermarket now (*eyeballroll* at self) will prevent such dramas when I get home.

10-14-2012, 07:31 AM	#11
imperfect_cupcake Senior Member How Do You Identify?: feminine dolly dyke Preferred Pronoun?: Your Grace Relationship Status: I put my own care first Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: In a gauze of mystery Posts: 1,776 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,426 Thanked 9,708 Times in 1,611 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	organising my leaving do, making a list of stuff I still have yet to submit to college, and a list of things I still have to do to move. writing emails to people to organise stuff when I arrive... when I moved here 10 years ago, I did none of these things. I saved up $1000 by living my my mom's basement, threw everything into her shed, packed four bags and got on a plane. all within one month of deciding to go. there was no time to think or process and when I got here I was completely consumed with culture shock and the excitement of a whole new world. The homesick and stress settled in later. I did not hit me what I had done for about 3 weeks. I'm hoping organising everything will give me a bit of a cushion for the reverse culture shock, and returning to something I ran from. I'm hoping that crying in the supermarket now (eyeballroll at self) will prevent such dramas when I get home.