Don't I know you?

There are many times here that I find myself comparing the friends that I have made here with the friends that I left back home, like I’m trying to directly replace people from my life in the US to the people I have in my life now.

I was thinking about this this morning as I stared at the sesame plants in front of my deserted school as I waited for my director to show. Is it because I have a tendency to surround myself with the same sort of people? Is it because there are only a finite number of characteristics for people to have so of course some of those appear in the personalities of those I knew back home and those I know now? Is it because I’m trying too hard to find things here that remind me of home?