Different

There are days when I don't notice that I look different here. Actually most days I forget my eyes are green, my hair is brown, and I am not stick thin. It's not because I don't look in the mirror (I do). It's because I look around me. I am surrounded with brown eyes, dark hair, and 9.9 times out of 10 thin people. You see so much of this that you forget that you don't have these characteristics.

When I first got here all I saw was a sea of brown hair (mostly because I am taller than most people). Now I don't notice that. I notice hair styles, fashion, shoes (I love shoes).

But today I was walking home and I realized that I must look so wild in a sea of Taiwanese people. I am reminded of a silver space jacket that my old roommate Heather use to wear. We would joke that you could see her from space or at least across campus.

I always wanted to ask the question "When you see me, what do you think?"

I though that I share this with you. You can never experience the feeling of being so different until you are in a place where most of the people have similar physical characteristics.

(And to clarify to the people getting angry with me right now, I do not mean that Taiwanese people look alike, because they don't. I am just saying that 99.9% have dark hair and dark eyes. Plus a good amount are shorter than me.)