Homesick

[trixtah]

And, yes, I know it's odd, because I'm here.

You know how it is with a friend you love and feel passionately about, and whom you miss every day, but whom you hardly write to or call because doing so is painful because you miss her/him more? I feel like that with my own country. It's going to be very very hard going back on Sunday. Partly because of some not-that-dire situations I'll have to deal with when I get back, but mainly because I'll miss this place so much.

Oh well, it's good that I get as much time here as I do these days. It isn't like when I was living in England, and I could only make it back for one week in 5 years.

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[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's strange being a tourist in your own town(s) (since I actually consider myself to be more a transplanted Wellingtonian than Aucklander these days). Auckland's downtown waterfront is almost unrecognisable. And driving around between unfamilar areas is getting really challenging with the changes to roading. And yet there are those pockets that are almost the same as they were 30 years ago... the trees are a little taller now.