Sunday
Aug272006
Life Begins.. Kind Of
Sunday, August 27, 2006 at 6:21
Summer starts high school tomorrow. I'm opening the photo studio to shoot DA photos starting tomorrow too. We will be in our house Friday! We can't wait! Our lives are beginning here, we can feel it.
The questions that I'm writing about now are, "When do you feel like you are no longer a 'tourist' and become a member of the community?" "Is it over time? How do you measure that? Can you?" I feel small changes taking place. Work and life begins, I'm becoming familiar with the area. I see less and less of the Tom-Tom. I know where things are, what food is good, where to buy my favorite pastry, things like that. Things are changing.
The questions that I'm writing about now are, "When do you feel like you are no longer a 'tourist' and become a member of the community?" "Is it over time? How do you measure that? Can you?" I feel small changes taking place. Work and life begins, I'm becoming familiar with the area. I see less and less of the Tom-Tom. I know where things are, what food is good, where to buy my favorite pastry, things like that. Things are changing.
tagged new life, re-inventing yourself in Europe, Family
new life, re-inventing yourself in Europe, Family 
Reader Comments (3)
What an adventure ... the process of change. I can tell you are soaking it up and throughly enjoying this. Difference being, once you are intergrated and no longer the tourist, that the experiences will continue to flow (DA photos aside).
Okay, here's my answer- you no longer feel like a tourist, when you spot other tourists from a kilometer away, and you think, "I would NEVER be like that!"
I say... when you feel right at home. =)
It's really up to you to decide when you aren't "just a tourist" though.