(i.e. hints for care packages, where applicable)
- Family
- Friends
- My chocolate lab, Chip
- Chocolate
- The Village Church
- Training for marathons
- Cinnamon Life cereal
- Anthropologie & Banana Republic
- Texas in general
- Chocolate (intentionally repeated)
- Barnes & Noble
- Mexican food
- The “Exploder” (My beloved ’98 blue Ford Explorer, my first and only set of wheels)
- Chocolate (this really does deserve to be on the list multiple times)
And, equally important…
Things I Will Not Miss
- Paying to drive on a highway (darn you, Dallas North Tollway!)
- Those classic 110 degree Texas summer days
- Wal-Mart!
- Mosquitos (because there will be plenty to attack me in the DR!)
- Meat loaf
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Chip dug up the flower bed, he’s now waiting for you in the DR….
Well of course chocolate deserves to be listed multiple times. And I really like how you described Chip as “chocolate.” And I’m sorry for beginning two sentences with “and.”
I get the impression that you like CHOCOLATE! Well where you are going that is the chocolate capitol of the world! However, if you can’t find any then get in touch with me cause I know the Governor of D.R. and I will see you get chocolate from the Royal Family!!!
Doc
dude, Vasha calls my car the exploder! i call it eddie b. it sounds like you really like being in the DR! that’s so cool. so are you totally fluent in spanish yet? i think you told me the teaching is mostly in english? but i don’t remember. I’ve been getting tutored in spanish recently so i’d love to practice with you sometime. you could always respond to the ‘i love you’s’ on the street with ‘te amo tambien.’
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