1. During my layover in Miami, I needed to buy lunch. I looked at the prices of the airport food and wondered "Is that in dollars?" The funny thing is that I wondered it aloud--as I discovered only after I got a funny look from a gentleman in line.
2. I bought gum. It was $2.13. I found it truly funny that they wanted 13 cents! In Guate, if they charged cents at all, it was .25 or .50. But .13? Who the heck wants 13 cents?
3. I am well aware that I spent the first 27 years of my life flushing T.P. down the toilet, but in Guate you can't, so my first weekend back, I kinda freaked out that it would stop up the system.
4. Sunday morning, I got in my car and drove to church. It felt funny to be in a box on four wheels. It felt even funnier to not be able to see any people. Any direction I looked as I drove down the street, I saw only other wheeled boxes.
5. My first interaction with another person was when the crossing guard at church said "Good morning." I had grown accustomed to exchanging a plethora of "Buenos dias" walking across town. I miss that.
6. It genuinely felt funny to leave my house and arrive at a destination without being cat-called. I admit I got used to being called "mi amor" (my love), "muneca" (doll), and "ojos lindos" (pretty eyes) everywhere I went. And deep down, in the daytime, I enjoyed it.
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