I will be home in just under 20 days! As my departure date approaches, I've been thinking about all of the things I'm looking forward to about being home. It's a list that keeps growing:
• Seeing my parents
• Hanging out with my best friends
• Mom’s wonderful cooking
• Hugs
• FREE water in restaurants and water fountains in public buidings
• FREE bathrooms
• Having my very own scanner and printer again
• Stores are open later and on Sundays
• Scrapbooking
• Skating and coaching. Who doesn’t love the start of the skating season??
• Random retail therapy trips with my mom
• Getting a regular dose of Dad’s lame jokes
• Printing pictures from my trips (It’s going to take FOREVER to choose which ones I want printed…)
• Seeing Jefferson City again
• Coffee experiments with Mom
• REAL American BBQs (The Germans think they have American style BBQs, but they are so wrong)
• Ice cubes
• Seeing the new Harry Potter movie
• A greater selection of coffee and coffee products
• Sleeping in a real bed
• The sounds of a Missouri summer night (who’d of thought??)
• Eating fast food and at restaurants that aren’t available in Europe
• Panera Bread (so amazing it deserves it’s own slot)
• Moving into my new apartment
• Mizzou’s Rec Center
• Volunteering at the Language Pre-school
• Mizzou football season! There’s something about driving along the highway and seeing tiger tails flapping in the wind that can never be replaced.
• Simply walking around Mizzou’s campus
• Watching football games with Dad and annoying him with my questions/ commentary even though I know he secretly enjoys it.
• Missouri Autumn
• Driving my own car
• Occasional mudslides with the fam
• Getting involved with MU’s exchange students and hopefully meeting a few from Germany!
• Talking everyone’s ear off about Germany
• Family dinner
• Being surrounded by MU pride on a daily basis
• Eavesdropping on Mom’s half of her weekly conversations with Grandma R.
• The fact that I will still get a ton of e-mails from Dad every week even though I will only a half hour away. Funny.
• Washers and Dryers that WORK and work well
• Having a dishwasher
• Disposals (AKA: No more Bio Müll!)
• Having an income again
• FREE condiments at restaurants
• Chilling in Memorial Union
• Things will be cheaper and more affordable
• I’ll have a microwave in my kitchen again!
• Catching up on The Office. Hopefully having an Office marathon with Holly…
• Taking classes that serve a purpose and are interesting
• The structure of Mizzou’s courses
• Using the Mizzou library
• Re-reading Harry Potter (if I have time)
• Random drives/ shopping/ Sonic runs with Simpson
• Keeping it classy with Becky Billings. (Which probably entails making laps around Hy-vee for free samples…)
• Having a larger selection of outfits and shoes at my fingertips every morning
• Schutz, Jess-Jess, and Wilson
• Lazy Sunday afternoons
• No deposits on shopping carts or bottled beverages (Germany’s way of getting people to recycle).
• Simply being home. There’s no place like home.
• Did I mention my family? I love my family!!!
Cat
7 years ago
2 comments:
By the way:
Did you know:
if you do not drive for over five months -- you must retake the MO driver's exam?
we have installed a Johnny Cash as a fundraiser to offset the expenses of your adventure?
the freezer is full of microwave dinners so Mom can take a break from making home cooked meals?
due to your late arrival in SL on August 4, we intend to sleep over at the airport before getting an early start to Jeff City the next morning?
Honestly, Dad. You really aren't funny!
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