Today is exactly 1 month until I come home!

This is such a weird feeling, I've been here 4 months and now only have one month left. Time has flown by, it took a while to become accustomed with so much here and I am finally speaking Spanish well and now all of a sudden it's time to start thinking about home. I actually can't wait, I miss home, I miss people, I miss the food, and I miss some feelings. But when I come back I think I'm going to have major culture shock and realize just how different the two cultures are. Here people live in the streets and live a more relaxing lifestyle. On Fridays when I don't start class until 1 I walk to class and see a lot of people sitting outside bars drinking wine, liquor, or Sidra so early in the day! Then after siesta time at around 6 EVERYONE is out socializing and getting a drink. I think part of it is a result of everyone living in an apartment. I'm so used to living in a house in the States where you can just go sit outside in your front or back yard or where you have enough space in a house to invite people over. Also everything is so far that you have to drive. Here you walk everywhere, even to pick up groceries. The apartments are pretty small so friends hardly ever go over other friends houses and to meet up everyone goes to bars or cafes. Here people cannot simply sit outside in their own yard, this is why you always see groups of old people sitting on all the benches. Us young people never have a place to sit, they take up all the benches haha! Also eating times are going to be hard to get used to. Here I eat lunch at 3:30 and dinner around 11. It took me a good month to get used to that and now I can't even imagine eating lunch at 3 and dinner at 6 or 7. But getting back to my point I can't wait to go home but I know that for all the reasons I just wrote I'm going to have culture shock going home!