Eleven months can seem never ending at times but it’s hit me more in the last couple weeks that it is really going to come to an end! There are days when I’ve wondered if it ever will and other days I wish it would last longer.
Of course I’m looking forward to being in America, but this journey has been one that I’ve loved and will truly miss. There have been times this month that I’ll randomly tear up when I begin to think about the things I’ll miss about this life.
Processing through this year is important, although I’m not exactly sure what it looks like yet. It’ll be an adjustment to live where I’m not moving every couple weeks, I can go places by myself, and English is spoken all the time!
Here’s some of the things I’ll miss…
-The A-Team. We’ve become a close family in the five months we’ve been together. We’re already planning several reunions together in the near future.
-Street vendors lining the streets with all kinds of food
-Traveling by trains
-Wearing clothes that I’m not sure how long it’s been since I last washed them and it being perfectly ok because everyone around me is doing the same thing
-Haggling prices at the local markets
-Living with only a few things in a pack and being able to carry all my belongings on my back
-Easy cheap public transportation. This looks different in each country. These are the types of trans I’ve ridden this year: Train, cab, bus, sum tow, rickshaw, auto rickshaw, tuktuk, moto, bodaboda, trike, jeepney, bicycle, motorela, subway, skytrain, and ferry
-Cramming as many people as possible into and on top of the cheap public trans- and it being perfectly legal
-Trying countless numbers of new foods
-Community living (I never thought I’d say that!) and the things you can’t avoid and just learn to embrace- like when a teammate sings a line of a song that they have stuck in their head and pretty soon everyone’s singing it
-Picking fresh fruit off a tree in my yard for a snack
-Worship with multiple languages being sung at a time
-Flights that I know 30 other people on
