Things I Miss From Home

Trying to post more often since I only have a few months left but since I’m sick with a cold, I can’t really muster up enough creative juices to type anything too meaningful and when I get bored and have nothing to do I start to think about all the things I miss from home so here is a off the top of my head list (in no particular order).

• Friends/Family
• My Car
• My Computer
• Fast Internet
• Video Games
• TV
• Food – Pizza, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Italian, Burgers, Wendy’s, cereal, cookies…I could easily make a list of foods I miss so I’m just gonna stop there
• Washing Machine/Dryer
• Dish Washer
• Constant Electricity
• Constant Water
• Clean Water as in I can walk up to a sink or water fountain and drink the water…its been almost 10 months since I’ve been able to do that.
• Cold Beverages
• Assortments of Beverages i.e. gatorade, iced tea, milk etc.
• My Pets
• My Bed
• Stores
• Movie Theaters
• Being able to cook what ever I want when ever I want it
• Grocery Stores/Costco (with an abundance of food and various choices)
• A normal cell phone where text messages aren’t charged at ridiculous prices
• Not being called umuzungu everywhere I go
• Not being stared at like I have 3 heads
• Being able to have a conversation and understand the person I am talking to
• Being able to have a conversation and have the person I’m talking to understand me
• Not have to take death defying moto rides to get places
• Feeling clean (when you live here you NEVER feel clean)
• Being able to work out…at a gym…with weights
• Having things to do (unless you want to go out to a club, there really isn’t much to do in town and NOTHING to do in the village).
• Redbox/Netflix/VOD/Movie Channels – I am starting to double or triple watch movies I brought with me…it’s really really sad.
• The beach
• Malls (if even to just walk around at…there is nothing like that here)
• Horseback Riding (I’m so going as soon as it is warm enough at home)
• My pool – it gets so hot here I just wish I had a pool to jump into to cool off in
• An oven – I haven’t seen an oven in nearly 10 months everything I cook has to be cooked on a burner which is currently on my floor…which brings me to the next point
• Not having to sit on the floor to cook a meal
• Not having to jam myself into a bus where I can barely fit

Aight well thats all I can think of right now.  I’m sure there are others.

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