Now that I have been here for over a month, I figured I could indulge in a list of things I miss. Here they are:
- Friends and family (but that goes without saying)
- Pets
- Snow (but not the cold or the biting wind)
- Carpet
- Goldfish (not the live ones but the cracker snacks)
- Granola bars
- My mattress
- Movies
- Numb3rs
- High speed internet
- St. Peter Co-op granola
- A properly functioning shower
- Stereo
- Public radio (Radio Lab and This American Life in particular)
- National Geographic
- A completely furnished kitchen
- Microwave
- Books
- Wall outlets that all work
- A good set of pens and pencils
- Wall decorations
- Clothing diversity (coming down, I didn’t really know what the temperature would be like – it’s colder and people dress more formally than I expected)
- Pizza
- Laundry Machine
- Dishwasher
- Constant electricity
Tune back in during May for ‘Things I Will Miss When I Go Home’.
Hi Mara,
ReplyDelete(This is only my second time visiting your page, so I mostly haven't been a lurker. But I sympathize with your desire for comments!) As a fellow American in Tanzania, I miss these things, plus Halloween. I didn't think I'd miss it, but I was sad that we didn't even have a jack-o-lantern because we felt too guilty about wasting a pumpkin. Thanks for your frequent postings--and for the bird list idea!
Julie Christoph