Following Up

Yesterday I met with the Japan-trip group for a "follow-up meeting." While the intention was to lesson plan and share academic resources, it turned out to be a picture-sharing, Facebook-tagging, jam session.  Awesomely wonderful to reunite, chat, giggle, and gossip.  I felt kind of funny seeing everyone in a separate life. Alien.  For three weeks in July we were twelve people; one unit.  Gluing ourselves to one another we learned each other's insides and outsides.  Truth, beauty, laughter, intellect, humor, weakness.  As foreigners in a novel land, we traveled in a shared experience.  Leaving Japan saddened me, but parting from our group challenged me.  Back to life. Back to reality.   Consumed for months with weekend study sessions, language classes, preparatory shopping, and delightful anticipation, returning home let me down.  And now?

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