Things I miss

When shopping on Wednesday, Megan asked me a really good question: What is the thing that you are going to miss the most about Oviedo? And what is the thing you are looking forward to the most in the US?

I couldn't give her an answer right away, and I keep naming off more and more things every time I see her. There are a lot of things that you don't think about when you're here, and there are a lot of times when I've gotten so used to something that I have to ask myself "Do we have/do that in the US or no?". Here is a small list of things that I have come up with:



Things I miss from the US:
1. Friends and family
2. Food
3. Cooking and baking, and deciding what and when I'll eat
4. TV in English
5. The presence of street signs
6. Being in an actual house
7. My dogs
8. Driving
9. Independence
10. Cherry blossom trees
11. Real streets
12. Pandora and Netflix
13. Not having to hold the shower head
14. Being able to make important phone calls
15. Being able to hang out at home with friends
16. 24 hour restaurants and grocery stores
17. Stores open after 9:30
18. Dryers
19. My bed
20. The beach house
21. My bike
22. Being able to do my hair


Things I'll miss from Oviedo:
1. Cafe con leche
2. 1-2 euro wine
3. Personal pride in appearance
4. Being able to walk everywhere
5. Public transportation
6. 1 and 2 euro coins
7. Chinos
8. Children speaking Spanish
9. Siesta
10. Tortilla Española
11. Cathedrals
12. Lack of rules (or of the enforcement of them)
13. Ability to drink outside
14. The 100 million individually owned cafes
15. The cute bakeries
16. Pinchos
17. Accordion players on the street
18. The ridiculous obsession with cleaning the streets
19. The socializing methods
20. My friends, Spanish and American
21. Going out until 5 or 6am
22. All of the fountains, parks, and statues
23. The enormous amount of people outside, always
24. Not having to tip