GirlGI | Girl Gone International Issue 8 | Page 88

If you're

a long-time
expat like me, you have experienced the
gut-wrenching reality of dear foreigner
friends leaving you and your adopted
country behind.

Here are my top five inherited items from
friends who have left me behind in Spain, in
no particular order:

1.

An electric teakettle. Why I never

splurged on the 11 euros it would have cost
me to get one I do not know, nor do I care.
This bad boy gets used on a multiple-daily basis. It doesn’t even have a European plug, but
came with a U.K. adapter.

This can happen for numerous reasons:
some are happy like getting a job promotion,
starting a master’s degree, deciding to take
a RTW trip and sometimes they are sad like
returning to take care of sick family, their visa
I’m its third owner, the first being the English
expires, they suffer from a bout of crippling
former roommate of an American friend who
depression.
left it behind after her internship had ended.
When the American friend decided to return
In the wake of their inevitable departure and
to the U.S., it was bestowed upon me.
a laundry list of pressing things they need to
take care of, many friends are faced with the
daunting task of getting rid of all that STUFF
Scrabble. It’s available for mobile
that has accumulated over their time abroad.
phones and there is a Spanish version as
well, but this particular Scrabble set is the

2.