there are a million reasons why i miss europe and the continent... but perhaps what's really bugging me is that the life ethos yonder is quite different from what it is like here in the us... i do feel like a slave here more than i ever did on the other side of the big ocean... and i feel very far from people i know... very very far. it's not that there aren't nice people around... people are just different here... and i do miss the life and mobility i had in edinburgh and in europe...
i don't mind working hard on things and spend hours mulling over problems as long as the effort is appreciated... but sometimes you have the feeling that all people care about are results...
and naturally, i wasn't at all impressed by what my supervisor here said to me when although he is willing to sponsor my visa extension, he said i had to be prepared to be a slave and work for my meals... i wanted to retort saying that that's no different from what i am already doing... except i am doing it for 'free' because my funding is from elsewhere... but i replied (half cynically) that the idea couldn't be better and gave a wry smile before walking back to my desk to more number crunching.
i will be the happiest person when i get this wretched research done... because i don't really want to be a slave all my life... and i don't want to have to go over my current visa expiration date... xc( and i don't want to be called and termed an ALIEN and not be treated like a real person with equal rights.
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posted by ~overacuppa~ on Wednesday, 22 March, 2006 at 22:27 hrs
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