- thunderstorms and lightening
- finding a church and getting into the community
- texting or talking to someone whenever I feel like it because it's free
- getting to drive a car and being able to go anywhere I want to without walking or paying for a taxi
- not having to walk home from the grocery store carrying flour, sugar, juice, and all other heavy food items
- internet that's not pay-per-megabyte
- dogs, and being able to love them and be around them every day
- sharing a kitchen with people who do their dishes, or at least having a dishwasher
Things I'm really going to miss...
- seeing a mountain every morning
- Cape Town's rainbow weather (bright and sunny, then sudden unexpected rain, then a rainbow...)
- being a short car or train ride away from the beach
- hearing three different beautiful languages spoken every day, often in a 5 minute walk
- the bees on the tree outside my window
- sleepovers, and living right across the hall from someone who's best friends with God
- hearing the train come into the station
- Graham and all of the other people who live on the street and in the park outside our house
- the crazy headlines posted on the telephone poles (ie: “WASHING MACHINE HORROR” or “SEAL CHOWS KIDS FACE”)
- experiencing or seeing or hearing something new every day
- 5 rand overnight movie rentals
- knowing that even though I have a paper to write or a test to study for, it doesn't really matter because tomorrow I'll be done with it and I'll still be in Cape Town
- thinking about and recognizing every day how lucky I am to be in this place
- not taking any day for granted, and living so in the moment that it's almost inconceivable
- church at Hillsong and the community that I've become a part of there
- serving at the soup kitchen on Sunday mornings
- the South Africans and Norwegians and Germans and Californians that I've become friends with
- the smell of Laundry Lady when you walk by
- never having to drive a car and being able to walk or take a cheap minibus taxi anywhere important enough to go
- flowers everywhere...everywhere...
