3 days

Things I’m looking forward to in America:

Seeing my friends and family :)

Customer service

Affordable cheese

Not being singled out for being a minority

A diversity of food

Cold food

A diversity of clothes

Washers and dryers

Being able to drive

Making money!!!

Having wifi in my house

3G and being able to use my iphone

Reliable cell phone networks

Hot showers!!! Though that’ll take a while to get used to

Carpeted floors, I think

Air conditioning, I think. I hear it’s hot in Texas…

Two plugs in one outlet

People (for the most part) understanding people being LGBT

Wearing shorts

Emissions standards

Liberal religion/my churches

Finding all of the African restaurants and hanging out in downtown Richardson

Things I’m not looking forward to in America

The long plane ride to get there

So many freaking white people

Gas prices

A lack of sketchy bars and cheap bottled beers

Non-colorful money…and pennies

My bed

Houses with insulation

Having to actually travel long-ish distances to get to a store

The looks I’ll get when I respond “I’m fine, thank you. How are you?” When someone asks me how I am

Things I’m going to miss about Rwanda:

Cheap public transportation

Motos

Sketchy bars

Beers for just over a dollar

Cheap shisha

Primus

The regular ego boost I get from men who, erm, appreciate the fact that I’m a muzungu woman

PKVs (the adorableeeee children here)

Walking everywhere

The hills and gorgeous scenery

The music

The super clean streets

My bed here!!!

Alimentations

My babies!!!

Being able to buy fruit and popcorn on the street for really cheap

The spectacular view from our house

Pausing just to listen to the Adhan

All the colorful fabric and African clothes

RTV shows about Japan

How easy it is to go to another country

Nyamirambo

Rwandan music videos

Things I’m not going to miss about Rwanda

Getting stared at all the freaking time

African English

People following me around in stores

Rwandan men always asking for my number and asking me to come visit them at their house

Breathing the exhaust from all the cars

Getting hissed at

Rwandans ALWAYS shutting the windows on hot, smelly buses