All the little things

So I have gotten near the end of my time in Italy and I hate that. Since I only have a couple weeks left here my friends and I have been discussing the things that we have missed back home during our time here more frequently. I find it funny because when we have these conversations it tends to largely revolve around the foods we miss from home...and all the other little things. We miss fast food, steak, free refills on drinks, going to the grocery store having a million options and actually understanding the information on the packaging. We miss being able to go pick something up past the hour of 9 pm, taking less than 2 hours in a restaurant for dinner. We miss having a dryer, normal brown sugar, measuring cups, screens on windows, breakfast foods, etc. These conversations rarely have anything to do with the people we miss at home, it always leans towards food. I guess when living in Italy that would be natural. We have gone from having a lot of different food types as options to only have Italian food as an option. Don't get me wrong Italian food is amazing but after months of eating nothing but pizza or pasta I am ready to have some other options. I am also excited about having storage space for my clothes instead of using shoe boxes as drawers.
While I miss the little things from home, I still wouldn't mind staying here longer. After I got to Italy I forgot what it was like back home, it was hard to remember the day to day activities in my life. Now that I am getting ready to go back home, I can suddenly remember all the day to day things and I feel that I have hardly been gone at all, like I was just at home a few week ago. I find that interesting because just a couple weeks ago I felt like I had been away from home for years, like I never really was there but just imagined it all. Interesting how quickly life changes and how easily it can change with your current perspective. It will most certainly be interesting to see how "home" is once I get back, and in time all the little things I miss from Italy. I am very interested to see how I have changed in all the little ways, I know some things about have changed that I can see, but along the way I am sure that a lot of little things about me have changed that I won't even notice until I am back in my native culture and they are much more prominent. I guess I only have a couple more weeks left until I get to find out.