What I'm Going to Miss

I have less than a week here, and I'm really, really sad about that. I am super excited about what lies ahead: Southeast Asia, then a new job and new apartment in Boston, but it's still really hard to be saying goodbye to my life here. There are definitely things I am not going to miss (the mess in this flat, the wind and rain on my walks to and from work), but there are more things that I am going to miss, below are some of them...in no particular order.

• The Wellington wind shaking the house, all night long
• Sitting on the deck, reading, chatting, listening to music, watching the boats, grilling food, and drinking
• Having arguments about America, oil, fascism, Iraq, China, New Zealand
  
• Sharing stories about my life before Wellington, hearing about their lives growing up in Wellington
• Cooking dinner all together
• Flat shopping...and the struggle to get vegetables into the cart!
• Being sat on while watching TV, just because they wanted to annoy me
• Watching Boston Legal all together
• Playing table tennis and wii
• Walks into town together on the weekends
• Teaching and learning new drinking games
• Talking about break-ups & giving and receiving advice about relationships
• Living in a huge flat, above the harbor, in a central location, next to a former Prime Minister, and not paying more than a modest place, in an inconvenient location in Boston
  
• Walks to get lebanese kebabs, coffee and gelato
• Silly Saturday purchases
• Creating facebook groups
• Walking to football and rugby games together across town, then watching those games in Westpac stadium
• Gchatting at work
• Football (soccer) every Thursday evening across town, and coming home muddy and bruised after we lost, together
• Being included from the start, not letting me stay in my room and be "anti-social" ever
• Being made fun of for my music, and only being allowed to play it later in the night, when they don't care much anymore (yes I will miss this strangely)
• Sailing on the weekends and weekdays, on boats that were literally right below my flat.
• Walking to the beach, 5 min away