Missing Singapore already!
I'll post more on my experience of Singapore over the next couple of weeks, but here are my first impressions of being back in Glasgow.
I arrived back last night near midnight, following a 3.5 hour wait at Heathrow's domestic flights section of Terminal 1 (this is relevant because it's the only terminal I've ever been to where there's less to do than at Glasgow Prestwick: one WHSmith, one Boots and two Costas). It's funny how the 12.5 hour flight from Singapore was fine, but that what irritated me was waiting at the airport in London. Not least because there were 3 flights leaving for Glasgow before mine, and I couldn't change because my baggage was checked through from Singapore. This may well be the last time that I let the travel agent do my booking!
So, I'm feeling rather sleepy in a relaxed and detached kind of way, and already missing Singapore. Most of all, I'm missing the people from LSL (Learning Sciences Laboratory), or at least feeling sad because I know that over the next few weeks and months I will miss them in a way that email can't eliminate. And whilst I'm sure I'll see some of them again in the future, it's hard to know when or where or in what circumstances. I've spent time with some fantastic people over the last couple of weeks ... and I hope that they will remain in my life.
I'm also missing fresh juice, especially watermelon. I'm missing eating out and the variety of food options. I'm missing being warm, and spending time outside in the evenings and not needing to worry about coats or being cold. I'm even missing MSG. Not in an explicit way but just through cravings for cheese, which is about as close as I can get. In fact, cheese was about the only thing in the supermarket that appealed when I was there earlier, along with a few high-quality yoghurts. I was yearning for real food, not overly-packaged plastic pseudo-food.
Even partial re-adjusting is going to take a long time. But then again, if complete re-adjustment was possible, then I wouldn't have learnt anything lasting from the trip ...
I arrived back last night near midnight, following a 3.5 hour wait at Heathrow's domestic flights section of Terminal 1 (this is relevant because it's the only terminal I've ever been to where there's less to do than at Glasgow Prestwick: one WHSmith, one Boots and two Costas). It's funny how the 12.5 hour flight from Singapore was fine, but that what irritated me was waiting at the airport in London. Not least because there were 3 flights leaving for Glasgow before mine, and I couldn't change because my baggage was checked through from Singapore. This may well be the last time that I let the travel agent do my booking!
So, I'm feeling rather sleepy in a relaxed and detached kind of way, and already missing Singapore. Most of all, I'm missing the people from LSL (Learning Sciences Laboratory), or at least feeling sad because I know that over the next few weeks and months I will miss them in a way that email can't eliminate. And whilst I'm sure I'll see some of them again in the future, it's hard to know when or where or in what circumstances. I've spent time with some fantastic people over the last couple of weeks ... and I hope that they will remain in my life.
I'm also missing fresh juice, especially watermelon. I'm missing eating out and the variety of food options. I'm missing being warm, and spending time outside in the evenings and not needing to worry about coats or being cold. I'm even missing MSG. Not in an explicit way but just through cravings for cheese, which is about as close as I can get. In fact, cheese was about the only thing in the supermarket that appealed when I was there earlier, along with a few high-quality yoghurts. I was yearning for real food, not overly-packaged plastic pseudo-food.
Even partial re-adjusting is going to take a long time. But then again, if complete re-adjustment was possible, then I wouldn't have learnt anything lasting from the trip ...
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