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]]> Wow, no cows in the street, no blatant staring, no grunting for “customer service”, no piles of litter, no smell of urine. WHERE AM I, TOTO??? It’s amazing the things that seem WEIRD now. Walking around the developed world of Singapore, all I can think is how it feels like I’m emerging from a cave that I’ve been in for the past six months. I realized as we waited to cross the street (with a CROSSWALK and a SIGNAL??!) that I think somewhere along the line in India I started thinking that we’d not see civilization again until we got home, or at least New Zealand.

But here it is, and it’s the weirdest thing to think that it’s not just for a quick stopover and then back to the surreal world of India. I’m loving the clean, bright, sparkly world with different faces and much different ways of doing things.

Yet…even as I write that, I can’t help but feel a part of me thinking, “Wow, yep. Sure is clean and easy and nice.”

But do I kinda miss the cows, the chaos, the cacophony?…

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