What will be missed, what to look forward to

What I will miss about Auckland/New Zealand:

• how green the grass is
• the accents
• having my own room but still living with people
• the friends that I have made here (though many are going home to their respective American schools anyway)
• two of out my four flatmates from this semester
• the ability of seeing mountains,
• green rolling hills,
  
• and/or ocean at any given moment
  
• real sugar in food (they don't really know what high fructose corn syrup IS it's that uncommon)
  
• laid-back...everything
• Maori culture
• Pacific Island culture
• haka and poi
  
• the trees
• fish and chips
• the urge to do and see everything I possibly can because it's my time to be abroad
• being able to go barefoot in public spaces and have no one look at you strangely (ie grocery stores)
• being legally able to drink & able to go out on weekend nights and not only go to "18+ nights" on awkward nights of the week
• Kiwi phrases
• the Maori tv station
• not being busy
• the lack of mosquitoes
• the Domain
• The Warehouse jingle
• hilariously bad commercials, like the one with the lady on the tractor going everywhere
  
• numerous ads about the All Blacks
  
• mince pies
• the drama of Shortland Street

What I'm looking forward to about home/Minneapolis:

• my friends, parents, brother, dog, grandparents, aunts/uncles, cousins
• having a job (aka an income) again
• dance
• dance
• dance
• American pizza and American burgers
• street signs actually being labeled at intersections
• less expensive clothes and food
• my phone
• being able to text faster and with quieter keys and unlimited texting
  
• walking to class on a flat (albeit windy) surface
• actual house parties where it is acceptable to wear jeans and a tshirt.. aka what you wore to class that day
• WEARING SWEATS TO CLASS and not feel unfashionable or out of place for doing so
  
• having more than 7 options of shirts
• being able to sit on my kitchen floor without the worry that I am sitting in bits of bacon or other questionable food stuck to the floor
• having my MN drivers license be a valid form of identification
• baseball
• being more busy
• watching SYTYCD... live
• having a car/reliable public transportation
• Minnesota summer
• lakes
• businesses being open past 5pm
• chain food: Caribou, Bruggers, Chipotle, Olive Garden, Punch Pizza, Khan's Mongolian Barbeque
  
• non-chains like local coffee shops and indie/hipster Minneapolis restaurants
  
• less bipolar weather
• driving around at night with the windows rolled down
• not needing to remember to bring my plug converter with me anytime I bring my laptop/camera battery charger because no plugs will need to be converted!!
  
• Family Camp
• backpacking with Fallon, road trip to Ohio to visit Whitney with Teige, Chelsea & Britta, hopefully road trip with Katherine to visit other Chelsea in Medora (aka fun with besties)
  
• Minneapolis skyline