Classes are finishing up here in Pest, and after finals, I'll be flying home next Sunday. I've been feeling very mixed emotions about the whole situation. For a while, I was dying to get home because of some issues with my living situation and a general inability to really feel any attachment for Budapest itself. However, the closer the end gets, the more I've realized, that there are many things I'll miss about being here, like cheap yet tasty food (I have mentioned I live in the restaurant district, yes?), easy public transportation, and the freedom to run off to some random amazing place simply because I want to. So in order to perk myself up and remind myself how awesome the states are, I present a list, in no particular order, of things I've missed while in Europe.
1) My mom and her amazing home cooking (Not that Transylvanian home cooking isn't good, but my mom uses more spices. Very important)
2) lunches at Rosa's with Brian
3) dark chocolate peanut butter cups
4) having everyone I want to talk to be only a text or phone call away.
5) being able to talk out loud in my own room. (Being weirdly polite I suppose, I won't skype or phone call out loud around my roommates. They do not practice similar courtesy)
6) Talking about the world and politics over the paper with my dad
7)Tabasco sauce
8) Dancing in the grocery store with Matt
9) My own room
10) a working well-stocked kitchen
11) Anthropologie runs with Erin
12) being able to cuddle my dogs
13) Good (and by that I mean from a non-sketchy establishment) chinese food
14) Coffee dates with all my home friends
15) Bagels
16) Dryers (my poor jeans are so baggy now!)
17) Hanging around the apartment laughing with my lovely roommates back at F&M
18) Professors without heavy accents
19) Free refills, and cups big enough to actually last through a meal
20) Ketchup, more specifically, ketchup that does not cost me extra money
21) non-cigarettey air
22) Chipotle
23) Bookstores
24) Everyone I care about being on the same side of the Atlantic as me, rather than an entire ocean and half a continent away
25) No time differences to calculate when I want to talk to people
If there is one big thing going to Budapest and Central/ Eastern Europe in general has made me realize, it's that I have an amazing life back at home and I must say, examining it like this is getting me pretty excited to go back to it. Maybe I'll try a list like this about Pest when I get home, just for comparisons sake.
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