Starting All Over Again

Earlier this month there was a death in my family. I was able to go home because my employers are awesome. I was allowed to go home for two weeks, which was necessary because of the circumstances at home, but I won't go into all that here. What I wanted to talk about was my return to Okinawa. I don't think I realized just how much I went through in adjusting when I first arrived here. I guess that's because it was all new, but upon my return this time, I've had to make all those same adjustments all over again. I'm having to try to relearn all the new Japanese I had picked up. I have to get used to seeing everything written in kanji and not being able to understand it. I have to try to get back into my routine, which seems to be really hard as I didn't realize just how long it took me to do the first time. Hopefully, it'll return quickly.