I've been extremely happy here in New Zealand lately: I'm working on a new piece of writing, I've been working more, our new flat is AWESOME and all ours, and the weather is beautiful. But as Christmas approaches, and now that we've spent nearly three months here, I'm realizing that there are some things I really miss about home. For example:
1. Being able to go out and get food later than 10 pm
2. Bars that are open past 1 am
3. BAGELS (also scones - the ones here are actually biscuits, I swear)
4. Diner breakfasts with hash browns and waffles
5. Real coffee (seriously, it's all instant here, and they've never heard of iced coffee)
6. Hmmm, this list is very food-based...
7. SNOW - and going outside and getting all cold and slushy and then coming in, dripping, to a warm house, and cuddling into a sweatshirt and blanket and having a hot cocoa (it's like ninety degrees here and blazingly sunny)
8. My mom's Christmas cookies and caramel corn, and trees with lights on them outside
9. Oak trees, spruce trees, hemlocks, ivy
10. Movie theaters, and free wireless everywhere
I'm sitting outside the library at the moment and sweeaaating from the heat.
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