Re: homeless

Not having a home is a very strange feeling. Usually I can adapt really quickly to having a new home or having to make a new home. Since coming back from Sri Lanka though I have had a difficult time. I've changed and I have a different perspective on my life and the culture that I live in. Not only do I have to make Canada home (like I had to make Sri Lanka home) but I don't have a permanent place to live right now. I had to give up my apartment when I went overseas so when I got back, I stayed in Saskatoon with my aunt for a couple of weeks living in the basement. School wasn't home because I am taking a semester off so it felt really weird to be there. Right now I'm in Grande Prairie, Alberta living with my parents. I always call my parents place home cause I grew up in GP but when I'm here it doesn't feel like my home and I'll be moving to Saskatoon again in December or early January so again I'll be forced to make my home all over again.

Making a new home in Canada while living in Canada is not such a hard thing. I've had to do it umpteen times in my life (I've moved a lot). Coming from a foreign country and trying to assimalate back into the culture so that it feels like home is a lot harder than one would think. There were things that I enjoyed in Sri Lanka that are different from here. I also got used to the way of life there. Things are so much more simple and slow which I really enjoyed. Everything is so fast paced here that I am often overwhelmed.

So I say all of this to say that I'm not on the street homeless just trying to make sense of my life and finding my home here in Canada again.