it's time for a list

What I miss about the US:

• Friends and family
• Food labels I can read
• Cake and cake icing
• People I can speak to (at the post office, the bank, the grocery store, etc.)
• A cell phone without Korean (granted the menus are in English here but I can’t count the number of text messages I’ve started writing only to realize half way through that it’s all grabble-digook Korean characters because I didn’t switch to English alphabet mode)
• Cleaner air
• Trees, big beautiful oak trees
• Seeing guys of different shapes and sizes with different hair styles and clothing styles (in Korea guys are cardboard cut-outs of each other: stick-like with short, black, shiny hair and creamy white skin wearing a business suit or a golf shirt and slacks)
• Women’s equality
• Shoe shopping
• Jean shopping
• Goodwill/Salvation Army/Thrift Stores/Yard Sales
• Getting decent hair cuts and a respectable dye job (though paying out the nose for it)
• Being close to home when the smell of spring is in the air
• Drying clothes in a dryer versus line drying
• Ovens
• The independence driving a car provides
• Browsing bookstores
• A man’s right to chose not to smoke or drink (more about this coming in a later post)
• Kohls