2 lists

Things I love so far about being home...
-seeing my family for the first time in a loooong time (particularly my extended family that I hadn't seen in 3 years)
-breathing clean air and living in a quiet place
-catching up on the past 5 years of living outside the country
-yummy American food
-showing basically my entire life to Raul :) childhood memories, my college, the houses I lived in (he's seen the Wabash house, the Marion house, and of course the Fairmount house)
-coming back in time for football season and the tail end of baseball season

and many others

Things that freak me out so far about being home...
-not breathing dirty air and dust and living in a very noisy place
-accessing my blog and facebook freely :)
-hearing what I missed for the past 5 years while living outside the country (our nation needs prayer, as does the nation I lived in for 5 years)
-the amount of weight I'll probably put on the first month we're home :p I need to exercise more and remember that I'm not on vacation thisi time...I'm here to stay.
-every sign is bilingual! Before I left, you didn't see a lot of Spanish/English signs. Now, they're everywhere...on labels, instruction manuals...everything!
-how much Marion and IWU have changed. (well, for IWU, that's a "duh" moment) -HDTV and being able to pause, rewind, and play again live tv. weeeeird. I haven't really watched tv in 5 years, so pretty much all of it freaks me out.
-the fact that my parents are more in the 21st century than I am...Wii, text messaging, HDTV, blue ray dvds, ipod touch...stuff that I don't even understand :p I feel stupid (well, except for the texting part...just never thought I'd see my parents do it)

and many others

Eventually, I'll start writing real posts. I promise.