enjoy you holiday miss Isles ,it takes days to adjust to the life home .Be always aware of opportunistic people.
thanks for the warning, vrglguaps. how tragic it is that we get this feeling of being had right in our own country. i hope it's more imagination than real, though most of us honestly believe that it's more real than not.
i always give myself a week to adjust again, to the noise, especially. as for opportunistic people, whew, luckily, i don't have relatives or neighbors who would hover once someone from "abroad" comes around. i have the crazy feeling they'd rather keep their distance from me. perhaps it's the way i look (draculina, hahaha!) or that nothing surprises them anymore.
as for opportunistic strangers on the road, well, they have it coming. just yesterday, when someone on the street called for me to take a taxi (there are pesky dispatchers here, right?), i put him off by staring him down and saying, "marunong akong tumawag ng taxi". boy, did he get away from me soon after.
as before, as ever, i still don't know how to cross a street here by my lonesome, whether in manila or cebu, huhuhu.
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