5 Top Things I Miss About Harare, Zimbabwe

Life as an expat has its bright and darker side too. I have been living in

England for 7 years now but here is just a list of things I still miss about my home country.bdg-hre-cityscap01.jpg

1.Spring Jacarandas - I miss seeing jacarandas of Harare blooming. There are just so beautiful. Here is in the

UK we have daffodils in spring but they are just not as beautiful as the jacarandas. Not the same.

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2.Decent Fresh Food - I only got to know about the word “organic” in this country because everything that is sold in supermarkets has a lot of pesticides. I just miss being able to go into the garden to get an apple, carrots or vegetables. I really miss that. I have to be content with eating a lot of frozen food and tinned food here. It was fun the first days I arrived here but I don’t enjoy that at all now.

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3.Family and Friends – I mainly miss my mum as most of my sisters are also living here. I miss a few friends but to be honest a lot of them are living as expats too in different countries around the world.


4.Seeing people in the street and being recognised - To me it’s just relating to other people and being recognized. Back home, we’re quite friendly to people and we are open minded about it, but here, I have found locals that look strangely at me. 5.Having a good laugh - Try living in my town it sucks. I’m sure you will agree the English homour is not always the best. Its just too dry, besides I love having a loud laugh which I cant here, I have to try and be a bit more civilized and laugh the way they do.Lastly even though I said 5 I thought I would mention domestic help too. I so desperately miss it.


This post was written as part of the ProBlogger Group Writing Project - Top 5. feel free to comment on my post and I would love to hear form any other expats about the things you miss from home.If you liked this post then consider linking back to me from your own blog and don’t forget to vote for who you think will the The Top 5 Blogs at the end of 2007.

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