Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Hawaii: two lists


Things I will miss about Hawaii

  • sunshine
  • incredible rainbows (almost everyday, you could even predict where)
  • having only as much stuff as would fit in my airplane luggage allowance
  • eating pineapple often
  • buying pineapples for a dollar at Times
  • wearing sandals everyday
  • the great people I met
  • aloha shirts
  • walking 20 minutes to work
  • the turquoise ocean
  • snorkeling and amazing, brilliant fish
  • the wind, strong but not cold
  • neighbourhood karaoke bars
  • amazing flowers
  • the gentle air, soft and breezy
  • living (briefly) near an incredible beach

Things I will not miss at all about Hawaii
  • cockroaches (Finally I can speak of their evil ways again. For months I was superstitious that if I spoke of them, they would appear. It happened once or twice, and that was too often for this chicken.)
  • poi-- I hear its an acquired taste, and I never acquired the taste.
  • getting drenched after walking one block in a downpour
  • regularly waking up sweating in the night
  • cockroaches
  • the humidity that frizzes my hair, moulds the walls and makes even paper sticky and limp
  • my cubbyhole room
  • living with 7 roomates, each a character in themselves, but 7 is just too many
  • few vegetarian options

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

um.... you're living in a cubbyhole here, too. And sometimes you can get drenched in a block. So yeah it's like hawaii, but no rainbows. welcome home.