missing you

Someone asked me this week what I would miss most, apart from family and friends. I think that it maybe coffee and cake. It's also the cultural activity of going out for coffee.

We had a wonderful meal with friends recently and the conversation was easy and there was lots of laughter because we all knew each other well. That intimacy takes a few years and I will miss that easy chat. And being the same, I can talk to mums at the park because we're the same I can chat to the bloke at the garage because I know what to say, but will that be different? How will the local people view us? I don't want to be seen as a rich westerner who is only going for a few years and can leave when the going gets tough, but that's what I am.