Maybe I am in a bad mood, maybe I am feeling let down or maybe it's just the culmination of a not great week but I had a revelation this weekend about my experience here. It's not long enough. For those who know me, yes, I am outgoing, I tend to make friends easily and get along with many. But that is at home or at least in my native culture I suppose. Here, things have been decidedly different. I have spent a lot of time observing and taking things in. I have a belief from other travels that as a visitor in another country, one must be humble. I have never laboured under the assumption that America, the big, the beautiful, the best is somewhere that everyone in the world would be happy to be
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