It's funny -- I've been here almost six years now, and am planning to stay forever, but I still go through cycles of feeling (and probably behaving) very very very American: impatient, respectful of efficiency, expecting a certain kind of deference and not at all pleased with other people's different ideas about hierarchy ... It comes and goes, but yeah, I think I'm probably in one of those moments now.
Oh well. We have to be in the US over the July 4th holiday (which I have managed to avoid 12 of the last 15 summers) and that will, no doubt, cure me of any lingering nostalgia for the yanqui way of life.
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It's funny -- I've been here almost six years now, and am planning to stay forever, but I still go through cycles of feeling (and probably behaving) very very very American: impatient, respectful of efficiency, expecting a certain kind of deference and not at all pleased with other people's different ideas about hierarchy ... It comes and goes, but yeah, I think I'm probably in one of those moments now.
Oh well. We have to be in the US over the July 4th holiday (which I have managed to avoid 12 of the last 15 summers) and that will, no doubt, cure me of any lingering nostalgia for the yanqui way of life.