Update

Back home, safe & sound. I'll post photos later but right now I feel like crying. Any time I open my mouth & people hear my accent, I'm exoticized enormously. I don't think people realize how often it happens, how much I have to put up with. How often I'm treated like a stranger in my own home, dehumanized, spoken down to. I can't take it anymore. I just want to be treated like a normal person & not like some kind of "character." I want to be seen as an individual first. Is that so much to ask?