Closure

I finally finished my stupid report for the exchange, which is a huge relief. I guess it somehow provided a sort of closure for me, and scince I have been able to move on with more important things like doing actual assignments for my autumn courses.

Anyway here is the link to the PDF verion of my report, which can be used as a guide for other incoming exchange students to Zambia.

Health Tip: Putting your left shoe on your left foot, and similarly putting the right shoe on the right foot is generally believed to help people walk straighter. No studies have been made yet to conclude that there is valid evidence for this phenomenon.

In Retrospect

Writing my first proper post-africa blog has proven to be more of a challenge than I initially expected. Numerous attempts proved futile and my frustration had been exerted in the form of work and studies, and more work.

So having deposited myself a handsome sum into my savings account, the nagging feeling that I had neglected somthing kept nagging at me, and when I happened to turn to my blog one fine saturday afternoon I noticed the conspicously boring looking post that I had previously left to amuse whatever tiny audience I had managed to gather over these past years.

The truth is, I have been searching for a proper catharsis for quite some time now, though I hardly think that writing a blog post could be termed as proper catharsis. The first time catharsis came up after my Zambia episode was when a friend and I were tryting to figure out the mechanisms of culture shock. The thing is, My trip to Zambia failed to induce symptoms of true culture shock because being native to South Africa, Zambia is sort of closer to home than say…Finland. But Zambia is not quite the same. So in a sense I had a sort of reverse shock, which people usually experience when they return home from a lengthy stay abroad. And yet it was not a true reverse shock because my time ‘back home’ was a determined time period and I knew I would be returning to my new settlement, back abroad. And the question I have been trying to face these days is what kin dof a shock am I going through now that I’m back in Finland?

Forgive the over-analysing and over-thinking, but I seem to have a special talent in that.

So this will then have to serve as my first proper post-Zambia post, and I hope that my passion for scribbling down my amusing thoughts here on this tiny blog will not completely dry up.

Health Tip: Accusing nurses of gossiping may prove to be very dangerous.