On returning

I´ve lately been thinking a lot about what it is going to be like to return to the United States. I have about a month left here, and to be honest, I´m getting a little tired of it. I like this city a lot, I think I could maybe live here someday (I never say things like that), but right now, mainly I think I just miss home, friends, challenging academics, and just American culture and counter-culture in all its glory. I actually saw a bootlegged version last night of Judd Apatow´s new baby, "Superbad" (which will come out here as Supercool), and well without giving anything away, it is hilarious. But its hilarity is American-born and although the Argentines may find the awkwardness of American high school students funny, there is so much more that is there in our sense of humor (which varies from country to country, but also varies within the US without a doubt), sarcasm, awkwardness, all of it is specific to our culture. It is like we have private clubs that are societies, some people float between and are able to understand and be understood in two or more, but for the most part we stick to our club. It would be great to be funnier in Spanish: I´ve tried being sarcastic and it didn´t really fly, but at the same time, I like using humor as an inside joke. That is to say, the American students that hang out here, we like to laugh together because our senses of humor are like one big inside joke. Many movie references and television references are nostalgically made.
Anyway, those are a few things I will enjoy having back in my cultural fannypack, but I imagine that the novelty will ware off and soon I will miss this culture that got to know. I think I might have written this before, but my dad told me that the culture shock of returning to the US can be harder than the reverse. Mainly because people in the US treat each other so differently than the rest of the world. This will be alienating at first. I will be very sad not to kiss every person I meet or know on the cheek when we greet or say goodbye. The custom gives proximity a chance, it is a warm feeling to be greeted this way, and if you don´t mind, I will be leaning in the first time I see you all again. Don´t hold back!