Overall, I'm doing just fine here in Bolivia. I was pretty homesick for a while, but I'm figuring things out now. I can get around in the city just fine, my family and I have come to an agreement regarding food, and I have a new thing for work so that's good too (I'll explain when I get some decent pictures to post).
So here's an interesting list of things that I never thought I'd miss about Canada:
- Q-tips
- French
- wearing shorts (yes, I'm at the equator and I don't get to wear shorts)
- being able to pet the cute doggies I see
- the sun not setting at 6pm
- street signs
- humidity
- no smoking
- normal keyboards
Things that I don't miss about Canada:
- expensive things (I'm getting used to paying 25 cents for an hour of internet usage and 10 cents for a Coke)
- being in a hurry or late all the time (here if a meeting is supposed to start at 2, that really means at the earliest 2:30, and someone probably won't show up)
- having to drive everywhere (that's more directed at Oakville than Canada in general)
- having to go inside to buy something and
- having to go somewhere specific in order to buy something
Things that, if someone was being nice and thinking about sending a care package, keeping in mind that it might take a month to get here, I might hypothetically want included:
- a burned copy of the Princess Bride, if it has a Spanish language option. Or a real one, but don't count on it coming back in one piece.
- the real estate section of the Toronto Star (my sister here is an architect)
- Harry Potter 5 and/or 6
- really, anything to read that's in English
- Q-tips
- candy and junk food. I miss gummy worms and cheesies and cookies that aren't Double Chocolate Oreos
- my bed, but I don't think it'll fit
Anyways, thanks everybody for reading my blog! I'll try to keep posting, but my life is becoming slightly duller and I don't have a steady stream of cool pictures to post.
¡Hasta luego!
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