born in the usa (not)

with less than a week left in florida out of the eight in total i find myself once again puzzled over how fast time goes. it literally does not feel like i would have been here for almost two months; but unless there is a glitch in the matrix it would appear i have.

it has been a great trip, a much needed holiday and a total break from, well, pretty much everything. i have learnt a bit of golf, and i have been able to run and practice ashtanga to my heart's content; this has been fantastic. another much valued aspect is the amount of rest i have been getting - generally speaking i have slept well, and a lot, and have achieved a state where being tired is not a constant. 

and as for the place itself? i have been staying in a somewhat particular environment - a retirement community -  that doesn't exactly give an accurate image of the country or even of this state, but still a few things in the north american way of being has caught my attention. there are the obvious big differences to europe, of course  - the whole society is based on entirely different things - and then there are the small things; the way people behave on a general level (it has not, for example, ceased to confuse me being asked how i'm doing all the time, everywhere), the things on TV (it is absolutely horrid), the way cities are built, based on private cars, the amount of restaurants (they are literally everywhere) to name but a few.

but as a whole, it has most certainly been interesting to get a glimpse of the mighty us of a. would i want to live in the states? absolutely not. i have found myself to be very much european (well, finnish) in nature and i doubt i could live here for a long period of time and keep the remains of my sanity intact. but to see more, and perhaps some day travel across it to see it properly and get to experience all the different sides of it - that i wouldn't say no to.