Monday was exhausting. I actually woke up at noon so I didn't make it to my first lecture (seriously, I promise I am never this unstudious in the states.. also class is within 10 minutes of my bed at Gustavus so I almost always go) since it started at noon! Extenuating circumstances, we'll say. It was weird going to my last sociology tutorial and last Italian lecture - though I will not miss my Italian lecture one bit.
I finally had my first Pavlova! Crazy, because if I was only in New Zealand for a few days I would have had it then. Funny how the things that are must-dos I still haven't really done (i.e. the War Museum which is a 2-minute walk from my flat).. it was a good night though, PSV handed out awards (I didn't get one but Andrew and David, my two male flatmates, did, but they weren't at the dinner so I got to accept the awards on their behalves). I stopped in a bar on the way back to hear some music, then came home and did research on travel things. I would describe what I've been looking at but I already feel like my brain is going to explode from them. It's been hours of research and still haven't finalized anything, and 49 tabs open on Firefox. Yeah, intense.seriously, the food was SO GOOD.
Tuesday I had my dance class where we worked on putting together the dance for Showdown - our performance on Friday. (I'm going to maybe see if I can get someone to record it so I'll have proof that I did Indo-Fijian dance.) And took an average-difficulty test in Italian. ALL DONE WITH ITALIAN. Yay. I came home and got ready for the IES Farewell dinner, which was Tuesday night.
The IES Farewell dinner was a bit of a reality check for me. We learned about how it might, and probably will, be difficult to go home because not only will things have changed at home, but I will have changed. Friendships may be different. Things I never realized about American culture will become more obvious, and I might not like everything I notice. I might actually be more unhappy at home than I ever got to be here (which honestly hasn't been too much, to be perfectly honest, so who knows maybe I'm an exception and going home will be just fine?) before it gets better. My flight is booked for June 30 and I still haven't decided about Australia. I think before I plan anything for sure or book anything I'm going to call the airline and see if there are any available seats for the first week in July. That's what I need to figure out first. But I started looking into going scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef, and things to do in Sydney, and I want to go so so so bad, even if I'm alone and my camera and journal are my friends, because it just looks fabulous. So amazing. And working on travel plans to Nelson/Wellington right now, and I'm going to the Northland next week for a few days. Hooray! Traveling!
But it's just so odd that I can say that I will be home in a month, give or take a few days. I'm not ready to leave yet, but I definitely am looking forward to being home, where it will be summer and I can see my best friends and sleep in my bed in my room that's over twice as big as my one here and spend time with my family and see how I have changed and how I now view American culture. But, if only some of that could come to New Zealand. That would be amazing. I wish my parents were coming, I know they'd love it here. Oh well.
I actually was able to fall asleep by about 1am last night and made it to my lecture today! Yeah. After class I came home, did laundry, skyped my friend Kimmy who I hadn't talked to really since being here, went to my friend Kristen's homestay for desserts because it was her birthday, came home, hung out with Andrew and watched crappy tv, and did more research on traveling. I think I might be close to booking things, but I don't want to say what I'm doing until I've finalized it because let's be real, that's a lot of typing.
I think I will go to bed now (did I write enough? oh, never) because I have my Kapa Haka assessment/performance tomorrow and class before that at 10am.
Love!
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