London Sweet London
Four weeks left before I go back to Brazil. And I already miss all of this.
I already miss all of the good things I've had here. And the bad things too.
I already miss walking on the bridge, admiring the landscape.
I already miss Big Ben, London Eye, Greenwich, Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Circus, Tottenham Court Road, Charing Cross, Embankment.
I already miss the museums. Natural History, Science, British.
I already miss the parks too. The grass. The picnic. The k(n)ip.
I already miss the friends I made here.
I already miss the same songs playing non-stop on the radio.
I already miss the dusk.
I already miss the end of the afternoon in a pub, after class.
I already miss the night bus (not really).
I already miss the Tube strikes (not really too).
I already miss my girls at work (for the first time in my life I was the "peligrosso").
I already miss Taro.
I already miss the "I can't understand what you are saying".
I already miss the buskers I've never paid attention to at the Tube stations.
I already miss my oyster card and the cute voice on the Jubilee line going "this train terminates at Stratford". And the imperative "mind the gap" too.
I already miss the long conversations through the night with my flatmates.
I already miss the queen (does she miss me too? Probably not.)
I already miss English breakfast, including the traditional English breakfast tea with milk.
I already miss hot chocolate. Flakes, Galaxy, Kit Kat and Ben and Jerry's dinossaurs too.
I already miss the lunch time in the park near the school.
I already miss the school, by the way. The reception where I used to spend time with my friends.
I already miss my best friend. I already miss my best teacher.
I already miss the Waterloo station.
I already miss Trafalgar Square.
I already miss Road House, Border's, Starbucks and, most of all, Misato.
I already miss my every day company. My half a brain. And our children. And our story.
I already miss the Acropolis and Berlin.
I already miss Christmas dinner. New year's eve.
I already miss the sleepy good night calls. The good night kiss. And the good morning strawberry flavored kiss too.
I already miss sheep, wool, needles, cashmere and a scarf with five little ducks plus their mama.
I already miss the scarf's smell.
I already miss striped things, pirates, Spider-Man, Jedi, Indiana Jones, Susan Calvin.
I already miss foxes.
I already miss tcham.
BUT (index finger), most of all, I already miss her. And her craziness. Just not quite sure if she already misses me too.
However, even though having a lot of things to miss seems to be sad, actually it's not. It just means that I have a lot of things to remember later. Things I did, I had, I tried, I learnt, I liked, I hated, I cried, I loved, I lived.
But the really sad part of this post comes now:
I wish this list were longer. Cos I already miss everything I haven't done.
And four weeks before I'm going home, it seems that I have only seven hours left. And I just wish these seven hours could last forever.
It's the end. No hope anymore. It's too late. And it's time to go home.
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