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I have no idea why but all of the sudden I feel like I'm disconnecting from everyone here and with the culture of Brazil. I'm not sure if it's on purpose or not either. I have noticed I've been having more of my American traits show through and I'm starting to go back to a lot of my old ways, like when I first got here in Brazil.
I've been forgetting the hug and kiss along with some eating habituals. I don't know how it happened but it did. I think I've been thinking so much about the United States that I feel like I'm in it or I'm going through some reverse culture shock type thing. Whatever it is, it's awkward and I feel like I'm doing something wrong.
Thinking back on it, this kind of thing does happen a lot during exchange. The type of feeling where you don't know exactly where you fit in or can't necessarily explain why you do some of the things you do. All you have to do is go with the flow, that's what it means to be an exchange student. The ability to adapt to the unordinary and to just go along with things unexplained with no expectations. It's a lot harder than it looks sometimes, but you just do it. You dive right into a new world and the only way to find your place is to embrace and adapt to it while sticking true to yourself.
Some beautiful pictures of my parents and I from my cousins wedding a few years back. Captures the essence of my family.