When I think about my time here slowly ticking away it makes me sad. I'm really excited to get back home to my friends, family & everything else, too, though. So it's a weird, inexplicable mix of sad and happy. Here are a few things I'll miss about being here:
The random things -
- a man sitting on a doorstep reading a Spanish translation of a Sidney Sheldon novel
- the butt crack of a man bent over the passenger seat of his taxi with the door open and his taxi hood up, seemingly fixing the car from the inside
- a car driving down the road that has been transformed into a tank covered in books
- a man on the side of the road at 10 o'clock at night going through an open computer monitor
- a hobo's dong poking through the hole of his onesy
- attractive bus drivers (sorry, DC metro employees but you usually don't have it going on like that)
- stores in which you can't buy just one pair of shoes, you must buy four pairs of shoes on your first visit or you have to leave (actually, this I won't miss)
- no longer flinching when I hear explosions from protests outside on 9 de Julio while I'm teaching at one of my companies
- the worst haircuts I have ever seen in my life, and I've been through the U.S. south a ton of times
More to come, I'm sure...
Wow. The hobo's dong is quite amazing. :) Love these little gems.
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