Ladies and gentlemen, readjustment to American life after Peace Corps is not pretty. Consider this desperate and disturbing excerpt which reached my inbox from a returned PCV this very morning.
People here are way too nice and overly considerate. It irritates me when people stop ten feet before a crosswalk to let me cross the street. “Just fly through the crosswalk, and I’ll cross after, it’ll be faster for us both!”
Lessons learned:
- Crosswalks are a western concept, as is the notion of stopping at them.
- Your emails to me are, apparently, fodder for public viewing.
(3. If you haven’t met Matthew Kuhl, you should. Ninkumissing-a!)
