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redleafSo my friends here have finally realized that I am not a very "good" American. Took them long enough. But I am obviously not Canadian either. Which brings me to today's topic: Identity
When you move to a new place you get the chance to tweak your activities and interests a bit - you don't already have commitments, and no one there knows what to expect of you (so you get invited to do a wider range of things etc). (You could also try to change something more significant, an aspect of your personality or something like being vegetarian - I'm not doing that here, the transition is disorienting enough without trying to change myself that much) I really enjoy this part of moving, because I get to try a bunch of new things. Some of them suck, and i'll never do them again, but some of them turn out to be super fun. This transition has made me embrace more social activities - probably due to the absolute isolation I feel regularly (who knew being able to text people would make you feel so connected to them!), but mostly it has made me embrace active activities again. Which is fantastic, I need the endorphins and the weather has been absolutely beautiful up here. I'm also hopefully learning to downhill ski this winter, so this should continue into not so nice weather :).
So if you could try three new things, what would they be?
When you move to a new place you get the chance to tweak your activities and interests a bit - you don't already have commitments, and no one there knows what to expect of you (so you get invited to do a wider range of things etc). (You could also try to change something more significant, an aspect of your personality or something like being vegetarian - I'm not doing that here, the transition is disorienting enough without trying to change myself that much) I really enjoy this part of moving, because I get to try a bunch of new things. Some of them suck, and i'll never do them again, but some of them turn out to be super fun. This transition has made me embrace more social activities - probably due to the absolute isolation I feel regularly (who knew being able to text people would make you feel so connected to them!), but mostly it has made me embrace active activities again. Which is fantastic, I need the endorphins and the weather has been absolutely beautiful up here. I'm also hopefully learning to downhill ski this winter, so this should continue into not so nice weather :).
So if you could try three new things, what would they be?