I'm officially on vacation

Today was my last final, although the semester doesn't end officially until June 25th. 

Two essays on Australia's identity and multiculturalism. I finished in an hour, everyone else took 2. That kind of worries me a bit, but maybe I'm just used to writing essay exams quickly.

So now its time to pack and clean and do all that junk I don't want to do before I head off to Sydney and New Zealand. 

Oh and get those petitions for course credit filled out and blahblahblah. I just want to have fun my last couple of weeks here.

I'm going to really miss all of my friends, its going to weird I guess going home and not being around people from other countries. I've gotten so used to having friends from norway, sweden, malaysia, hong kong, just everywhere. The people I've met are amazing, I just hope I'm not bored or disappointed with my American friends that I haven't seen in a while. One went to France for a semester so I guess we can talk about that. I'm just so used to different view points and cultures now, not that America isn't a mixing pot, but meeting people who were born and raised in other countries is a lot different than meeting people who are from a different country but pretty much adopted the American Culture.

I don't know how I feel about that. I'm going to try my best to keep in touch with my friends I've made here, but I wish I could bring them all back with me! Even more so, I wish I could study abroad with them in another new country so we could learn about that country together too. I really felt like I was part of a group, we were all different but here together, far away from home, you all want new friends and you just get that sense of real friendship I guess because you're all in the same situation, experiencing new things, and have the same interests. I wish I had more time with them.

But I am excited to be coming home too. Its the same way I felt when I came home from omaha and missed my friends I interned with, you go some place for 6 months, you adjust and adapt and get used to the lifestyle and then you suddenly have to leave it. I don't think it'll ever get easier to do. I liked feeling like I was a part of something. But all things come to an end and then you start something new, like my upcoming internship in NYC.