- 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.