As the strokes say...

This is it. Im leaving in about 6 hours.

I know im going to get home and all you are going to say “So, how was your trip?” and I really have no idea how to answer that; it was great, it was brilliant, it was sweet as, it was life changing and existence affirming. I saw things that I couldn’t see anywhere else. I drove cross country, I lived in LA, I saw volcanos in Hawaii, I lived and studied in New Zealand, I climbed a glacier, I drank legally, I drove on the left side of the road, I was a backpacker, I experienced kiwi culture first hand, I turned 21, I was on my own.
I have a new family now of students and teachers and artists and readers and workers and young people and old people and locals and travelers. I am older now, I know more about myself as an individual and about people from other places, I know what I like and what I don’t like, Im starting to figure out who I am and what I want to do. There are too many people who made all this happen and I want to thank them, brace yourself, im doing this more for myself but you know you’ll read it anyway:

Thanks first and foremost to mum and dad for letting me go.
Thanks to Ben and Sue for keeping me sane from 7000 and 10,000 miles away
Thanks to Summer for being my other
thanks to Eric, Jon, and Sean for being my secret boyfriends and keeping me in endless laughter
thanks to alyssa for letting me stay with you
thanks to krista for driving cross country like a freaking champ
thanks to the kiwi boys for making me feel at home
thanks to Gareth for toughening my skin and making me smile
Thanks to Sam for reminding me how cool the bass is and for driving to the airport
thanks to Andy for handling stuff back home and being a venting spot
thanks to my kappa girls for checking in
thanks to the boy for coming to visit, I still cant believe you did
Thanks to all the butler kids for adopting me the first night
thanks to all the BU kids for not letting me forget home
Thanks to everyone who read my blog, I didn’t keep this for nothing

I know im missing people but im a little overwhelmed right now so don’t take it personally. Ill add later on, oy, I gotta go do stuff.