Thirteen

Thirteeen. Thirteen days until I'm home. Well, actually thirteen days until I leave. In fourteen days, my flight to Minneapolis will be arriving in an hour. SO weird.

Yesterday was rather uneventful. I woke up, watched some Dexter, did some more packing - though the amount that I haven't packed yet is starting to intimidate me. I really do need to pack for Aussie. I'll do it tomorrow. I'll do everything tomorrow. I actually got motivated enough to go for a run; it was short but sweet. As I was stretching in my room, I heard female voices downstairs. At first I thought it must be that a girl was here with Andrew, but then I heard another female voice and no male voice. I got downstairs, and an American girl from California is moving into David's room! Andrew and I are both extremely confused because David was supposed to be coming back next semester. But his entire room is cleaned out. And I do remember that when he left it seemed as though he had more stuff that one would bring home on a break, but David's weird, so whatever. Both Andrew and I text David.. and find out that David decided to move in with some other medical students and didn't tell anyone in this flat that he wasn't coming back. That's only slightly insulting, right. Not even telling people you won't be seeing them again? Andrew and I spent a good bit of the afternoon trying to figure out why he would do that while cleaning out David's expired food, rice that has been there since February, and overall very nasty fridge. Meaning Andrew did the actual cleaning and I encouraged him to throw away food that expired in April that was David's. It was actually kind of a punk move for David to leave the flat with all of his old food. Granted, it means that Andrew inherited some of his freezer food, but come on. And to not tell anyone "yeah, I'm moving in with some med students, so maybe I'll see you around?" when he left is SO bizarre.

Andrew and I spent a lot of time tidying up the rice everywhere, and Andrew stole a different cupboard for his food. And we just hung out. It was awesome. He's the flatmate that I spent the most time with so it was fitting that we spent the last night hanging out. AND we watched SYTYCD before going to bed. I feel like watching dance with me is a form of initiation into being a true friend. And I said and chattered away about the different dance styles and whatnot.

And this morning I was woken up by banging on my door because Andrew was leaving to go to the airport. It was weird saying goodbye to him, but he promised that we'd keep in contact - which I think will be made even easier with Maddi living in my flat next semester. He seemed sad saying "see you later" to me. I know I was, even in my just-woken-up state. And this means that I will probably be super freaked out being in my flat late at night for the next two nights since I'll be alone - the other girl left for Thailand early this morning. Great. I'm also a bit bummed because the girl that moved in seems really cool. Which means that this flat will hopefully be more fun and the people will be more interesting to talk to. This semester 3/5 of us were good.. and the other two I would never choose to live with, ever. Or be friends with, ever. Oh well.


Today I'm thinking I'm going to go to Kelly Tarlton's Antarctic Encounter Adventure World. They have free shuttles from downtown on the hour, so I think I'll catch the one that's at noon, which will give me a little bit of time to chill around my flat and then head downtown. Tonight I might be watching SYTYCD with a friend who's still here and waiting for her family - it all depends if her family can get to New Zealand tonight or not. Hopefully.

1. All of my American friends who I met in New Zealand are home now. All of their facebook statuses are about being home/jetlagged/unable to drive on the right side of the road/missing NZ already. Since I haven't sought out to see them, part of me feels like they're still IN New Zealand if I were to look for them. So weird.
2. JetStar is flying Trans Tasman today from Auckland. TWO DAYS.
3. My bank account hasn't had this little money in it since I was about ten.
4. It's hard to decide what to bring home and what to leave here. I think I might leave some clothes here because I brought semi-ratty clothes over to NZ anyway so it wouldn't be a big deal, but also because since I wore my clothes SO often they're even more ratty. And some of them I don't like so it'll be good to just leave them here..
   
5. I cannot wait to wear a summer dress again.
6. I feel like Minnesota summer is going to be colder than I'm anticipating. WARM UP.
7. I'm getting really excited for my apartment next year, and to meet two of my future roommates.
8. I am going to miss 2/4 flatmates that I had this semester though. I feel like I should get a going-away gift of some sort for my flat and leave it here for them to find. Seeing as the 2/4 I am going to miss will still be living here next semester too.
9. SO MANY TRIPS PLANNED THIS SUMMER. I'm getting excited.
10. I really want to go to a concert. Even a concert where I don't really know the artist would be okay.
11. I'm a little worried about the fact that I'm not checking a bag in Australia. Just realized that I don't think I can bring things like sunscreen because they're in bottled bigger than 3 ounces. I might try though. With my sunscreen that's almost out at least.
12. I can't wait to swim in a LAKE. But I am definitely going to miss the ocean. And the smell of ocean air.
13. Thirteen comes up fast.