My Mum asked me in the car on the way home what it was like being back in the UK. I had just flown in from Abu Dhabi and I was glad that I had my hoodie in my rucksack. It was raining and cold, unlike the 42° heat that I had just left (although the airport was pretty freezing with the air con on super chilled).
I thought about her question and I have decided that being back in the UK is like flicking a switch. It doesn't really feel like I have been away or that anything has changed. I was only here 7 months ago. The weather was practically the same then too. It's like my brain goes from desert mode to green field mode as soon as I step off of the plane. You see the fields (though the clouds) as you are coming in to land and it's like it wipes clean the beige desert part in an instant. The same happens when I fly back into Qatar. You start noticing landmarks from the air and 'flick' - I am back into my other life.
I am currently sat in Starbucks and the air con is on full blast and I am freezing and wishing that they would switch it off, or set it to a more comfortable temperature. It is only about 24° outside the door (which is wide open), so I feel that the air con is completely unnecessary. But being super chilled is reminding me of Qatar and how cold I feel in the shops over there. If only people would apply a little bit of common sense!! Clearly this is more than a TIQ issue! (This is Qatar - D'oh!)
So, I have been back for 2 weeks now, and nothing really has changed - apart from the road system around Moor Street station in Birmingham, where I got pulled by a policewoman for driving in a bus lane - oops! But in a way, I am glad that nothing really has changed. It means that I can switch between my different lives without too much hassle. It makes it easy for me to come back and forth. Flicking that switch makes it feel like I have never really been away at all.
I thought about her question and I have decided that being back in the UK is like flicking a switch. It doesn't really feel like I have been away or that anything has changed. I was only here 7 months ago. The weather was practically the same then too. It's like my brain goes from desert mode to green field mode as soon as I step off of the plane. You see the fields (though the clouds) as you are coming in to land and it's like it wipes clean the beige desert part in an instant. The same happens when I fly back into Qatar. You start noticing landmarks from the air and 'flick' - I am back into my other life.
I am currently sat in Starbucks and the air con is on full blast and I am freezing and wishing that they would switch it off, or set it to a more comfortable temperature. It is only about 24° outside the door (which is wide open), so I feel that the air con is completely unnecessary. But being super chilled is reminding me of Qatar and how cold I feel in the shops over there. If only people would apply a little bit of common sense!! Clearly this is more than a TIQ issue! (This is Qatar - D'oh!)
So, I have been back for 2 weeks now, and nothing really has changed - apart from the road system around Moor Street station in Birmingham, where I got pulled by a policewoman for driving in a bus lane - oops! But in a way, I am glad that nothing really has changed. It means that I can switch between my different lives without too much hassle. It makes it easy for me to come back and forth. Flicking that switch makes it feel like I have never really been away at all.
