Much delayed "I'm back" post

If youre a recent returnee, you will understand every word and every feeling of this post. If you are to go abroad, THIS IS WHAT TO EXPECT! Buy chocolate in advance or something XD 

So im back.  so i dont have to so i dont live by the colloseum or the medditeranian sea. so i dont sound like im singing when i speak and i cant walk into a bar and get an esspresso. so i dont wake up every morning to our kitten romeo and we dont have carbonara every night for dinner. so i dont go to the discotecha and come home at 5am. i dont have to decipher what the russian is saying everytime he speaks in italian too fast and i dont have to put up with joao singing his "rosa" song. Alby doenst explain the physical principals of everything that moves and i dont sing "let it be" with my host dad. i dont go to the beach with my host sister and i dont hear my host brothers jokes every four seconds.

Yeah its tough, and I miss it. It was an amazing year and I'm having difficulties fitting back into my old life when the expectation is that everything is to go back to normal. Things change, a lot, and i didnt. I wasn't here to experience those changes, they were just kind of all thrown at me at once. My dogs bigger, my mom's hair is shorter, our home is carcinogen-free, there's more writing on the bathroom walls. Frank broke up with Ronda who cheated on Frank with Phil but didnt tell him, who wrote something on facebook, which hurt someone's feelings which totally changed a group of friends. Suzie got a job at a restaurant, Nancy doesnt like Susan, Howard likes Fred, but Fred doesnt like Howard.* I can drive, I work, there's ketchup in our fridge, the lawn is perfectly-cut and perfectly green.

And to deal with all of this: I AM AN AFS VOLUNTEER! oleeeeeee'! I would suggest it...a lot :)