still trying to get acclimatized

When climbers make a run at a summit they have to spend time getting used to the difference in altitude. They call that process acclimatization, and it can take quite some time to get their bodies ready to operate in the new surroundings.

That's how I'm feeling now that I'm back in the good ol' USofA. It's quite a shock to the system to jump from the DR and the culture of a beautiful but vastly different world back into the affluence of the United States. There are feelings of guilt over all the things that I have, the waste that I see every day, the things that I take for granted...

I have to get my head on straight and get back into the swing of things, but I don't want to lose the conviction that I am feeling to change. I don't want to lose that...