Alone in the crowd.

I was recently on a river rafting trip with a bunch of students from my college. Most of these guys were young blokes - mostly, if not all of them, undergrads from the US. The group was a pretty large one. But, I was not able to related with even a single one of those guys/girls!

I did play 3 or 4 rounds of volleyball with them, I think I was accepted into the group without much ado, but when it came to subjects for conversation, it was like we were from two different worlds. Come to think of it, maybe we are. The way we were brought up and the social circumstances were completely different. There were a couple of points about their general interaction that I liked, but overall, I was not able to digest their behaviour. I'm sure it was the same for them as well.

Usually talkative, I was labelled as the most silent person in the group! This was a strange and interesting experience for me.