THINGS I'LL MISS/ WON'T MISS ABOUT ITALY

Miss:

-Double cheek kissing (or triple cheek from Southern Italians)

-Time is of no importance

-Italian (most beautiful language on Earth)

-Italian Espresso

-Italian Espresso vending machines where there's even a little stir stick for you

-Legitimate Italian Food, especially Spaghetti alla Carbonerra

-Italian Gelato, in particular Nocciola e crema

-Eating Nutella for breakfast and having it be okay

-How eating an ENTIRE 15 inch pizza is not only accepted, it's required

-Milan's amazing public transportation (even though @ times unreliable)

-Saying "prego" every 3 seconds and having it be okay

-Seeing Italians wearing shirts with English phrases when they have no idea what they mean (ex: I swing both ways)

-Quaint Italian streets and architecture

-Techno in clubs

-No tipping!!

-Giving you back 10 eurocents when you're supposed to get 13 back but only paying 5 eurocents when you're supposed to pay 8

- Having everything end in "eria", such as Pasticceria, Gelateria, etc.

-Parco Sempione

-Hearing the BeeGees and John Mayer in the Esselunga (groccery store)

-Kinder chocolates

-Walking down the street and running into a 500 year old church

-Brera

-Aperativo... if you don't know what it is, you're not truly Milanese

-All of the wonderful people I've met from all over the world

Won't miss:

-Running in Milan

-People looking at me... always.

-Ghettoness... get your buildings fixed you have a beautiful country!!

-The Pollution

-The Rain

-Stores/ Restaurants closing between 1 and 5pm

-Relying on public transportation

-The disgusting public bathrooms with no toilet paper

-No posti (seats) on trains

-No wifi anywhere/ misconception of what the word wifi means

-Lack of peanutbutter

-No dryers

-The constant smoking

-Cobblestone roads that ruin your shoes and luggage

-Italian TV

-The Euro/ $ conversion

-Going out in Milan and costing you 40 euros for the night

-Seeing beautiful skinny Italian women ALL THE TIME/ watching them eat pasta

-Milan's mosquito population

-Waking up at 3am to ambulances and police cars... oh wait... I'm moving to NY.