On the Way Home

So I'm sitting here using my free hour of wireless at Charles de Gaulle, trying to beat the battery on my computer before it dies. It's been a long night/morning, and will continue to be pretty long for a little bit. Sigh.

Lebanon was definitely an experience. There were some very strange things about being there, some things tending towards the negative, but for the most part I really just ate up being back there. It is....indescribably unique.

At this point, sitting in the airport of a Western country, I'm switching back into my American-raised Western mode...the part where I stop worrying whether the soles of my feet are facing anyone, and when I can start to actually meditate on my varied study abroad experience - mostly in Egypt, but I certainly learned a lot from my stints in Jordan and Lebanon. I can't wait to meditate from my bed, before or after rereading Harry Potter (or the new Terry Brooks novel...well not new, but I've been abroad...). But for now, airport bench suffices.

Holiday wishes to everyone else out there, and hope your enjoying time with family. My family don't really know I'm coming home early, and that my sister is picking me up at the airport to bring me to our house in Western Mass. That should be a pleasant homecoming - assuming I'm conscious (this really has been a traumatic few days for sleep). But I'm feeling happy now. A sort of deep kind of happiness, which is more than I can say about while I was in Egypt. I'm just glad I can get somewhere where I can just relax and not be anything in particular. Thank God.