i've been in europe for 116 days...

and this is what i make of it...
1. learned more french, german, arabic, italian, spanish, + portiguse than i thought possible.
2. learned how to cook some more dishes.
3. Separate trash in 4 different containers.
4. read 24 hour clock.
5. read train schedules.
6. samba dance.
7. salsa dance.
8. see pets in stores and restaurants.
9. walk to the market almost everyday for food.
10. live without a car.
11. live without an ipod.
12. live with my girlfriend halfway around the world!
13. do laundry by hand.
14. wear dirty clothes.
15. sleep in burger king.
16. sleep on a train.
17. sleep on a tile floor.
18. not sleep at all.
19. know what it feels like to be the extreme minority.
20. the only red head somewhere.
21. not shower for days.
22. swim in the Mediterranean.
23. walk on a rock beach.
24. pay for ketchup!
25. live without wendy's.
26. miss my senior year buckeye football games.
27. pay for print credits.
28. work on a metric system.
29. bringing bags to the grocery store.
30. seeing the same people everyday because schwäbisch is so small.
31. have a birthday in berlin.
32. start my website.
33. got gmail
34. drink hot wine.
35. drink cold jeager.
36. feel stupid cause almost everyone speaks more than one language.
37. go to the gym in schwäbisch.
38. listen to french, brazilian, spanish, german music.
39. sleep in the living room.
40. not cut my hair in 123 days, except when denise trimmed it.
41. walk everywhere!
42. dress like a ninja turtle.
43. see a brazilain see snow for the first time.
44. use skype.
45. shop for clothes at the euro store.
46. having everything smell like smoke almost all the time. i can't take it anymore.
47. being called a yank.
48. being mistaken for a german, irishman, englishman.
49. hear according music and church bells everyday on the streets.
50. be in a christmas spirit entirely too early, like november 20th.
51. the biggest and weirdest thanksgiving i've ever attended.
52. not working out for a month straight.
53. sleep on a square pillow.
54. watch 14 ringtone commercials in a row.
55. i've never wanted to be in chicago this bad.

i'm sure there are things i'm forgetting...

yeah...

you know those moods i get in once in a while? i was in one the other night. i can't wait to go home...

what did you do this weekend? i went to africa!