I've been away from Taiwan for 13 years, and I've discovered that I have become an outsider! The language people speak is the same as before, but often, though I get the surface meaning of the words, I miss the underlying message.
離開台灣十三年整！倏然發現自己已成化外之民，嘴裡雖然講著同樣的言語，卻經常是懂得字面，不明字裡。