In case anyone is still reading this...

Things I now realize are not critical to survival:

• My hair dryer
• Pizza
• Constant entertainment
• Perfectly composed wardrobes
• High heeled shoes
• Text messaging
• Wal-mart

Things I now have a much greater appreciation for:

• Consistent internet
• Drinking water
• Comfortable beds that don't require mosquito nets
• Spring and Fall
• Microwave popcorn
• Silence
• Daily contact with people for whom English is their first spoken language
• The calmness of knowing I'm in the American society with a civilized government and that I'm not likely to get kidnapped on the back of a motorcycle
• Traffic lights
• Traffic laws
• Stop signs
• Dramamine
• Reptiles and amphibians that eat mosquitos
• Light-colored dirt
• Nice bathrooms with western world-style toilets
• White socks

Things I will never ever forget:

• Jonah's smile
• "Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy MZUNGU!"
• "Mzungu Baby, you have such a nice camera, why don't you give it to me?"
• The smell of being coated in DEET
• Greasy Skin(for the first time in my life)
• African Rain
• "Auntie! Auntie! Auntie Taylor!!!"
• Mebra pinching me
• Isaac always crying
• Singing the Wiggle Waggle
• Hearing Arabic, German, Dutch, French and English all on the same flight
• Thinking of the ultimate peril of a boda boda accident
• Story Time
• Seeing Steven's face light up when he wrote his name
• Being in a society and a culture and a place where survival is literal, not a far off imaginative or simply a dramatic adjective.

In case you, like my sister, didn't realize or didn't know, I'm home. Or at least physically.