While most other kids studying abroad from Loyola have
already returned home I still have just about 2 months in New Zealand left…and
it’s freaking me out. It seems like forever ago that I arrived here and that I
just only got here all at the same time. I really don’t know where the time has
gone; I want more of it. Every single day I think about not wanting to go back
home to the US, about pushing my return flight home date to later. Like I said
in my first blog post I’ve fallen in love with New Zealand and I want to stay.
It is certainly going to break my heart to leave.
Everything about being here I love, or have grown to. The people here are super nice; everyone is, and when I say everyone I mean it; it’s in the Kiwi’s nature to be nice. The scenery is absolutely stunning too. Every day looking out my dorm I can see sky tower, I can see the beautiful teal of the ocean, and I can see volcanos lurking in the distance. The city is sooooo clean as well! The parks are all well maintained; there is just a certain respected order about everything. I don’t mind the hilly-ness of the city either; it helps to keep me in shape. I’ve grown to love how they always add an ‘as’ to end of their adjectives, doing that is sweet as. I can’t say that when I go home. People are going to look at me as if I haven’t finished a sentence and say to me “sweet as what…?” Okay so things are a little more expensive here, but that too can be overlooked. I mean if I ever moved here and got a job they still have a fantastic minimum wage of $13nz, what isn’t to like about that? I don’t want to leave.
I already have this burning jealousy for the kids studying abroad here next semester because they have more time left here than I do. Oh please, will someone (anyone) see this from next semester’s study abroad group and switch with me? I don’t want to go back.
Everything about being here I love, or have grown to. The people here are super nice; everyone is, and when I say everyone I mean it; it’s in the Kiwi’s nature to be nice. The scenery is absolutely stunning too. Every day looking out my dorm I can see sky tower, I can see the beautiful teal of the ocean, and I can see volcanos lurking in the distance. The city is sooooo clean as well! The parks are all well maintained; there is just a certain respected order about everything. I don’t mind the hilly-ness of the city either; it helps to keep me in shape. I’ve grown to love how they always add an ‘as’ to end of their adjectives, doing that is sweet as. I can’t say that when I go home. People are going to look at me as if I haven’t finished a sentence and say to me “sweet as what…?” Okay so things are a little more expensive here, but that too can be overlooked. I mean if I ever moved here and got a job they still have a fantastic minimum wage of $13nz, what isn’t to like about that? I don’t want to leave.
I already have this burning jealousy for the kids studying abroad here next semester because they have more time left here than I do. Oh please, will someone (anyone) see this from next semester’s study abroad group and switch with me? I don’t want to go back.
