Chicago

13Apr09

Admittedly, I am a bit homesick. I keep on looking at the calendar and it is eternally six more months to go.

Yes, staying in the lush countryside with “frost” being the only extreme winter occurrence. Life is good in the big château. But I miss pizza, carry-out thai food, tall buildings, a real big lake, the Jewels at 2 am, “ethnic people”, running trails, and so on. Of course the constant feed in facebook of the horrors of winter kept me from feeling too nostalgic: “snow…again,” “when will this end?” “trying to enjoy the ice still.” Could I really move back there? It seems that every place that I look at has some major issues: it smells, or costs too much, or is too small, or rainy or is going to fall into the ocean. I keep on coming back to the relative ease it is to live in Chicago. And the long winter.

But now, for the time being, most of my friends are there. And it is simple: it’s my home. After being a foreigner for a while, it is nice to just come back to something more familiar. At least until the next travel bug bites!

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