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Monday, September 5, 2011

Mixed emotions


Things Melissa & Rachel will miss about Europe:
1.     Eating gelato every day
2.     Being able to talk about people when they’re right there…
3.     Italian food
4.     Eating whole pizzas
5.     Cannoli
6.     Speaking Spanish
7.     Doing what we want- when we want
8.     Seeing cool things!!!!
9. No homework or chores (except for the massive amounts of homework in Spain)
10. Our friends!!!
11. Eating the bigger meal in the afternoon
12. NUTELLA
13. Being tan
14. Well-behaved dogs
15. No rain or clouds
16. Gorgeous sunsets
17. Paris (Rachel)
18. Not having to tip or figure it out
19. Rebajas & Saldi (Sales!)
20. Dry heat in Spain
21. Not being distracted by texting/phones
22. Hot Madrid police officers
23. The little green men
24. Orange juice
25. FRESHLY SQUEEZED orange juice
26. Not being hungry (Melissa)

Things Melissa & Rachel will NOT miss about Europe:
1.     Pigeons everywhere
2.     The SMELL (“Madrid”)
3.     Hostel awkwardness
4.     Being hot and sweaty all the time
5.     Being sticky STILL at 12am
6.     Creepy men
7.     Spanish pigs (men and ham… lol)
8.     HAM (“NO Jamón!!")
9.     Spain- everything closing down for siesta
10. Italy- restaurants closed between meals (3 and 8ish!)
11. Paying for bathrooms
12. Not having soap/hand dryers/toilet paper/toilet seats!!
13. No separate checks
14. People treating you dumb because you speak English
15. Gypsies!
16. Beggars
17. Walking EVERYWHERE/public transportation
18. Italians being slow (and slower clocks)
19. Being thirsty all the time/no cold drinks (Melissa)
20. Paying for water in restaurants
21. Wearing wrinkled clothes EVERYDAY
22. Living out of our suitcases
23. Loud streets at night – ex: garbage collection at 1am in Spain
24. Spanish food
25. No air conditioning anywhere! Even train stations.
26. Not having phones
27. The ambulance siren
28. Cars hating on pedestrians
29. RAIL EUROPE
30. Not having seats on trains
31. Bad pillows
32. Not being able to sing
33. Waking up for breakfast
34. PDA everywhere
35. Immodesty
36. Treatment of women (esp. Spain)

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