Missing

Things I will miss about Mozambique

• Speaking Portuguese
• My dogs Mel and Magorducha
• My theatre group jovens
• Mandaring children to do things for me
• Capulana clothing
• Beach trips whenever I want
• Having a flexible work schedule
• Free time
• The sound of rain on the tin roof
• Hitchhiking everywhere (boleias)
• Getting free veggies from my produce ladies (bacelas)
• Sleeping under a mosquito net and feeling like a princess
• Lighting the trash pit on fire
• Giving people the thumbs up whenever I pass
• Having an empregada to clean up after me

• Wearing flipflops everywhere
• My Peace Corps friends
• Fresh fruit (especially mangoes, papayas, pineapple, tangerines)
• Sitting outside in the shade when it's hot
• Greeting everybody I pass
• My host family in Namaacha
• Getting 9 hours of sleep every day
• Patio time
• Meio frango (Grilled ½ chicken on the bone)

Things I won't miss

• Sweating constantly
• Dirty feet
• SAND. EVERYWHERE.
• Chapas
• Sexual harassment
• Being called “China”
• People hissing at me
• Waiting....
• Work frustrations
• Xima (the food, not the dog)
• Camel spiders and big roaches
• Rodents scuttling overhead
• Lizard poop
• Being the only one at at meeting who doesn't understand Changana
• Being stared at
• People asking me for money
• Loud music coming from every house
• Bucket baths
• Volunteer Report Form (VRF)
• Faulty electricity
• Bank lines
• How there's only “one way” to do things
• Corruption
• Running out of phone credit 
  
• Mosquitoes