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I am having an absolutely charmed life at the moment....I hate to brag, but it's true...after just under two weeks at my lovely WWOOF place in the Wairarapa, where I got to hang out with horses, cows, chickens, sheep, lovely Melissa and Francesca, and random neighbors, I got to come and stay at Melissa and Burton's house in Wellington. Burton is hilarious and keeps us constantly entertained (he is the author of a number of fabulously tongue in cheek books which you've likely seen, including "Why Cats Paint" and "Dancing with Cats"...which , though I will not tell this to his face, believed was actually true until about three weeks ago...but whatever, I'm not naive, just an optimist/idealist...right? right?) Anyway. I digress...I have gotten to look at his new book which is a funny relationship book in which women get to ask the men they're in relationships with a number of funny questions/scenarios, and it was great to ask Chris...(sample dialogue: "You are lost in the desert, and you see a camel. You can only ask it one question, and this question would be.....'Um, which way is due north?'"hahaha) Their house has also become included in the massive amalgamation of "perfect houses" in my head, it is located in Scorching Bay (not as bad as it sounds...Wellington is rarely 'scorching') which is just a little ways out of the city, with a really cute cafe right down the street and the beach about 20 meters out of the front door. Oh, and Peter Jackson lives down the street...no really....
I guess the hardest thing about the next couple days (because I leave New Zealand in um NINE days) will be getting myself ready to leave the country, and prepare myself for Thailand, Nepal, and Russia...but mostly Thailand and Nepal. I've gotten really used to the laid-back Kiwi lifestyle, something I want to emulate when I one day find my way back to the States...and let me tell you people...ready the news is not making me want to rush back home, sorry.... I also worry a bit about the kind of person I'll be when I get home and how I will relate to my friends, who have been living their lives in the US, and well, I haven't. I have learned so much about myself and the kind of life I want to lead in the past few months - I never want to stop learning new things and having new experiences. So I look forward to bringing those ideas back home but will people want to listen?
I guess the hardest thing about the next couple days (because I leave New Zealand in um NINE days) will be getting myself ready to leave the country, and prepare myself for Thailand, Nepal, and Russia...but mostly Thailand and Nepal. I've gotten really used to the laid-back Kiwi lifestyle, something I want to emulate when I one day find my way back to the States...and let me tell you people...ready the news is not making me want to rush back home, sorry.... I also worry a bit about the kind of person I'll be when I get home and how I will relate to my friends, who have been living their lives in the US, and well, I haven't. I have learned so much about myself and the kind of life I want to lead in the past few months - I never want to stop learning new things and having new experiences. So I look forward to bringing those ideas back home but will people want to listen?