Not a fan.
Here is a list of things that either annoy me a lot here in Italy, or that are just bothersome:
1. Mosquitos. And I'm not talking about regular old mosquitos in the US that fly around and land on you and stay there for a while sucking your blood until you see them and then smack them. No, these punks are called Tiger Mosquitos, and they never land on you. They just fly around and bite you multiple times so you can't tell, and the next day you have painful, itchy bites all over. And what's worse, they fly in your ears at night (my ears and not my roommate, I don't know why) and they are so loud and I hate them and I just get SO MAD about them!! The sound of bugs near my ears is one of the things I hate most, and ugh it's just terrible.
2. The lack of a dryer. It takes literally days to dry clothes, and if they don't dry fast enough, they smell weird from being damp for so long. We have one drying rack and a clothes line outside, but when it rains, they only option is to keep them inside on the rack and hope for the best. And drying them with a hairdryer is a silly idea to anyone who has seen the hairdryer we have.
3. The water in the shower/ the cheap shampoo I had to buy. Either the water here is hard water and it doesn't wash out the soap in my hair well, or the watery cheap shampoo I got for 1 euro doesn't clean my hair properly. In any case, my hair is never fully clean and it feels horrible. I can't use the good shampoo I brought, since the water can't wash it out of my thick hair.
4. Tourists. They are everywhere, stopping in front of you when walking or looking up to take pictures instead of looking where they are going. Especially when I go running this is a problem, or even when I'm walking home with groceries. Please move, people! I move out of the way for you!
5. The price of food. The only thing I really plan to buy for the rest of my time here is groceries, and it's annoying how expensive everything is. And everything comes in such small packages- ugh I miss shopping at home.
6. Smoking. Italians smoke a lot, and when you are walking down the street behind someone blowing giant clouds of vomit smoke into the air, it's not very pleasant. It sticks to your clothes and gets in your nose and just isn't fun.
7. The cold. Yes they turned our heat on Oct. 31st, but since then it has not worked. It is supposed to be automatic and we aren't supposed to touch it, but I really don't know when it actually going to provide us with heat again.
8. The fact that we only have a few cheap dishtowels that never dry out. Doing dishes every day is not fun when the chinsy fabric of the dishtowels is soaked and smells like dirty rag. I don't mind doing dishes (mainly since the warm water heats my freezing hands), but it just feels gross to use a dirty wet cloth to "dry" clean dishes.
9. The water. It tastes gross, and is as dirty as city water usually is.
10. "Lesson plans" of disorganized teachers. I can't handle a class that won't teach you anything and expect you to get everything they ask correct. Some of my classes are fine and follow a schedule, but others are terrible and it's a guessing game to know what we have to do.
11. The washing machine that ruins my clothes. I have already ruined about 5 shirts, and nothing is the same color it was when I came here. Things shrink, too, and it's really frustrating to have clothes get ruined and then know that everything here is too expensive to replace it.
12. Being constantly reminded of things I miss from home. Pretty self explanatory.