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It’s weird. When you’re an American living somewhere else, you don’t know where you belong anymore.
Our trip back to the states was like Alice stepping back through the looking glass having tea with the Mad Hatter on one side and sipping Starbucks on the other.
Since the flight crossed the international date line, we arrived in the US before we left China.
A little of the Alice experience.
Once we arrived, we wanted a bit of both worlds. That’s why we brought four empty suitcases allowing us to bring 200 pounds of American jabberwocky back to Kunming.
Jeff and I filled them up during a few trips to Costco. Our booty included duct tape, sharpie markers, ball jars, tootsie rolls, industrial size jars of nutella, vanilla, cupcake liners, bubble yum, circus peanuts, and a hunk of velveeta.
The remaining space went to an assortment of books snagged at a used book store.
There were a few American “luxuries” we couldn’t pack, such as snuggly soft laundry. We don’t have a clothes dryer in China, so everything from our underwear to Levi 505s are as crunchy as corn flakes.
We packed our brains with flat screen memories, including multiple episodes of quality TV programming including 1000 Ways to Die, the Housewives of Beverly Hills, and COPS.
Now we’re back in China and our American adventure seems like a weird dream. Weirder yet, we aren’t sure what side of the looking glass China is. All we know is that we are home (as twisted as that sounds) and we can indulge on camel kabobs and American candy on the same day.
January 5th, 2011 at 8:36 am I’m not sure which ickier. Camel kabobs or circus peanuts.
January 5th, 2011 at 8:19 pm Hello Ginger, What an adventure,,, I feel different when I visit my country, I can’t imagine what you and Jeff are going through. My wife is having a great time reading your entries, she sometimes wanders if you truly eat the things she reads- like camel kabobs or is this just an idiom? How is Jeff doing…. Give him my regards,,,, Armando Rivas (I use tobwork with Jeff)
January 11th, 2011 at 10:47 am Miss you both! Hope it’s fairly warm there.