likes
- always people of all ages out and about, in cafes, on benches, walking around...feels fundamentally different from home in this respect
- having a view from home
- being able to travel: plans for munich in november, israel in december
- not having a car
- small school with small classes, arel and dorian are happy with it
- having a pool at our disposal
- walking amidst beautiful architecture
- sense of history in the old parts of the city
- getting perspective on our life in s.f. (we have it pretty damn good over there!)
- hearing spanish all the time
- diverse community at school...people literally from everywhere
- being able to give arel more freedom
- not worrying about gun violence
- jogging to get arel and dorian at school
- meeting new people all the time (inspiring to hear about other people's lives and imagine possibilities)
- bureaucracy! (see previous blog post)
- not having a car: makes certain things much more difficult, like food shopping and playdates
- grocery shopping: expensive, often can't find what i want, pain to get stuff home
- not feeling totally in control
- not enough spanish at school (it is every day for at least an hour so i should just calm down)
- muggy, dirty air (depends on the day, obviously)
- jogging to get arel and dorian at school
- spiders biting dorian and giving him huge welts
- overthinking the future (probably i'd be doing that anywhere, but because of changes it seems to be happening more than ever!)
- meeting new people all the time (it's exhausting at times to put myself out there)
- i miss people from home