1/28/10
This is my last installment of the 'Things I Miss' section. Although the 'won'ts' outweigh the 'wills,' I'm going to miss this place. Here goes!
WILL MISS…
*My kids
*Hallie as my roommate
*City Shop (especially their sandwiches)
*Buns of various sorts by Xiang Yang
*Element Fresh
*Pirated DVDs
*The fresh noodle stand
*Josh and Becky
*Traveling
*Chinglish signage
*The food cart by our apartment
*Being employed
*The Fabric Market
*Angela: Chinese English teacher extraordinaire
*Making faces at babies on the Metro
*Laughing at things that aren’t funny
*Trivia night
*My 3-hour stents at Starbucks
*Watching any and every TV show/movie for nighttime entertainment
*RMBs as currency. Love using the coins.
WON’T MISS…
*The pollution
*The mold growing in our apartment
*Our GHETTO apartment in general
*Eating Chinese food every day
*Getting stared down all the time
*My one-hour commute (each way) to work
*Being insanely cold all the time
*Line drying my laundry
*Skype…at least for a while
*Cooking the same food every night
*The traffic and poor driving skills
*Watching people pee on the side of the road
*The smell of rank tofu following me around
*Having an almost non-existent social life
*Wearing the same outfit everyday
*Riding the Metro and the Chinese thief who stole my iPod on it
*Spitting
*My Nokia cell phone that stays together with a hair rubber band
*Wearing 4 layers of clothes daily
*Getting sick every other day
*Not being able to drink from the sink
*Using an Ethernet cord
*Blow-drying myself to get warm
*Being cut off in every line that I get into
*Having more than 6 contacts in my cell phone
*Steamed rice
*Wearing my robe and socks to sleep every night (and wrapping myself into a nighttime burrito)
Excuse me, I have to go now: Duibuqi, wo yao zou
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