Dealing with readjusting, after spending 18 months foreign, I arrived in the Honolulu airport and seeing a cinamin roll, something missing from my diet all that time, I thought to treat myself to one of those expensize things. Besides being a good 20 times more expensive than the dry pastries I was used to, I was shocked when the price came to even more. Oh (huge deflated feeling), taxes!
As far as adjusting to be a stranger in a strange land, it helps to do what you can to serve them. You learn to love them. At least that helped me, once a week spending about 2-4 hours doing some communitee service. I don't know what will be allowed in this situation though.
