Traveling Back in Time....

Leaving my suitcase half empty for all the

wonders I'm going to bring back with me

I've decided to take some time out of living in the future and one step ahead all of you, to journey back "Home" this week. Remember when I said this joke about the future would never get old - well just confirming that it hasn't. On the subject of home, people here often ask me where home is, and just so you're all happy I've decided the easiest thing to do is to just alternate my answer between San Diego, Rochester, and sometimes just for kicks, DC. The truth is I no longer have a home :( Just kidding, but not really - this week I'll be visiting all of my former homes (well not all, but the three listed above) in a quick 3 city tour.

I'm journeying into the past to celebrate the future for three very special people to me. One - my brother Patrick's graduation from high school, embarking on his future at college; and my friends Eve and Joey who are tying the knot, and embarking on married bliss together. In addition to these happy occasions, and the joy of seeing all of you, there are a few things I'm very excited about leaving the future for and returning to the good ol' USA:

-Sun/summer/bbqs/pools - generally all things to do with summer (I know another boring

post about the weather, today we had rain laced with hail and the helpful weather service

advised six layers of clothing, I'm not sure how you walk once you've put all those on, but

in two days that won't be a problem!)

-Mexican food - guacamole, hot sauce, BEANS! Can't wait

-Tono sushi - AND I can order all the TUNA I want cause I haven't had any mercury in four

months

-Wegmans sub and Potbelly sub

-Reunion with my things, I can't wait to just dive into the pile of them spread across two

cities, well and also remember what exactly I still own, somewhere....

-Letters to Juliet, this has been on my calendar for six months now. Lot of build-up, you

better deliver this time Juliet....

-But most of all - DANCING. As I may have mentioned previously, Wellington is full of scenesters. Imagine your hippest hipster and magnify times the 10,000 miles it takes to get here. Scenesters has not equalled dancing to date. I know in the name of cultural

exchange that I should have shared the lean back by this point, but I haven't, and if you can

believe it I haven't danced since January 31st, other than in my head, or ok, a few times in

front of my mirror. So I've been doing some stretches this week and trying to stay limber to get ready for my triumphant return to the dance floor!

So get ready America - here I come. And if I don't see you on my visit, please don't be offended like those transvestites or dyslexic two year olds that read my blog. I want to see you but I may be too busy shoving burritos in my mouth, while hip-shaking in the sun....

New Zealand - don't worry I'll be back in just ten days, with lots of cheap American goodies in tow to share with you.

Alright, I'll also fill you in on what I did this week, real quick, then back to stretching and packing (which I never thought I'd enjoy again after moving here, but I am relishing shoving all those silly sundresses into a suitcase and knowing this time, they'll be worn):

So this past week a few things haven't really gone my way, but I also figured out the meaning of life, well maybe two meanings of life....

-I was all excited cause I booked a ski trip to the South Island for really cheap, and it included roundtrip flights, hotel, and lift ticket. I was set to take advantage of the winter weather and check one more thing off my NZ to-do list - well, two days after I booked it, I received a notice that the company had been liquidated and in order to have any hope of a refund, I will have to go to a hearing and such, which happens to be while I'm in the U.S.....ugh, there goes sweet ski trip. Going to sick my American credit card company after them and see if that works any better...

-This was the last week of Semester 1, and I've had four essays to write in the last week. After spending most of the weekend on them, I had finally just about finished my second to last essay, and without going through all the details, I lost the document and couldn't recover it. Luckily I had sent it to the printer right before it disappeared EXCEPT, the printer was broken. Long story short and 48 hours of anxiety dreams about rewriting it and emails to my former IT guy in the states, it came through the printer today! So all I had to do was retype it, thank you Mrs. High School typing teacher whose name I can't remember

-Found out in order to reschedule my Maori final (its while I'll be in the U.S swinging my hips), I have to pay $120 and provide documentation of why I'll miss it, including presenting a copy of the wedding invitation, ridiculous. Oh and I have to take the Final 4 hours after I land back in NZ. Hopefully I'll sit next to someone who's Maori on my flight back so I can impress them with all the colors and counting I know.

-I went to my 22 year old German's friends birthday party and gig (she sings). First of all, she was born in 1988. I'm not sure its even legal for me to be friends with her. Second of all, I wish people liked listening to me sing

-At trivia I won a free dessert for hablaing en espanol, where I translated "Put the chocolate slowly in my mouth", I didn't realize this also entailed the trivia host feeding me the chocolate. Trivia is so scandalous

-Went to see a play about if the South Island had been colonized by the French and the North Island by the English. This play came with a warning that it makes fun of everything Kiwis hold near and dear. It also came with some awesome fake French accents and making fun of the French, always a good time. The best part, a joke about my favorite hotspot Twizel, where Bob and I met a dude with a shaved head and fringe (bangs). And thats no joke

-Decided Alice and I should be those girls and dress up and go see Sex in the City. In the end, it was just ME being that girl, while Alice was still keeping it cool. The theatre was running a special "New York combo" for all the young ladies viewing Sex and the Sizzle, which we obviously couldn't pass up. It included champers, popcorn, an ice cream, AND a copy of the latest Fitness magazine. Hmmm, brilliance, because who doesn't want to read up on fitness after gorging themselves, and definitely soo New York. What?

-Oh and I finished off the week by booking myself a little trip to a place called SAAmoa. Island vacay for one, coming up

Okay more soon from the past!