Give Me Five

5 things I am missing most:

1) Hot sauce, spinach, broccoli, 100 percent whole wheat, almond and rice milk, unsalted nuts, oranges, strawberries, blueberries, and peanut butter.  This aside, the food here is still delicious and healthy.

2) Friends and family.

3) Not only a biweekly paycheck (although I haven’t even been here a month yet) but also the obligation of going to work and doing semi-important things every day.

4) My own personal space.

5) The Running Club at Ohio State!

5 things I am missing least:

1) Paying rent.

2) Football.  The truth is, I do miss this a little—but I associate full responsibility of this to my first bought of homesickness.

3) So much homework that I have to find my head and reattach it every morning before I begin my day at Ohio State.

4) Ohio State construction, even though there’s a lot of construction here on a main road near me.  This construction is to build a subway route, and somehow this seems exponentially more productive than whatever is going on at every single campus road and main highway route in Columbus.  Notably, none of the construction here is orange; the signs are lime green and by some miracle still more appealing than said Ohio State construction.

5) Judge me however you will for this one: foreigners everywhere around campus.  By natural and necessary irony, I am the foreigner here, speaking English, speaking English loudly, moving around in groups of people speaking English loudly, sounding like an idiot when I do speak Spanish, foreign-looking, easily excited by things which are new to me and everyday-blasé for Spaniards, obnoxiously touching everything in every store whether or not I have the intention to buy it, and cosas así.  Even still, the foreigners here in Granada are so ubiquitous that it’s part of the culture, which makes it a little easier to feel like I’m fitting in.

My plan is to update this list at least biweekly and have a record of the transformation!