100 Days!

100 Days in AmSam!!! Celebrations included a cake! Yay us!

100 Days in AmSam!!! Celebrations included a cake! Yay us!

I think it’s safe to say that, roughly speaking, 100 Days marks the end of the beginning of my time here in Samoa and the beginning of the middle, which is pretty exciting stuff. In honor of the occasion, here is a list of 100 things!

Things I Love About American Samoa (/About Living in American Samoa/That I Have Done While in American Samoa)(at least some of the time)(in no particular order):

1.     The ocean

2.     Living on the beach

3.     The jungle

4.     Our house

5.     Teaching

6.     The students

7.     Pizza for school lunch

8.     Cheese at Leafa’s!

9.     Ice cream sandwiches at Leafa’s

10. Leafa

11. The weather

12. Rain

13. That I can go to the beach at the end of October

14. Puppies

15. The Faleasao dogs

16. Faleasao

17. Palagis

18. Manu’a High School

19. Lazy days

20. Occasional sweatshirt weather

21. The nights it’s cold enough to sleep with a blanket without the fan

22. How exciting little treats are (candy! Bongos! Fish!)

23. How packages make it feel like Christmas

24. The people

25. The neighbor kids (“Miss Shasha, can we play with the ball?”)

26. Having real coffee again!

27. Internet on Fridays, when everyone leaves

28. Friday afternoon intramurals

29. Zumba!

30. White Sunday

31. Second Beach

32. Third Beach

33. Toa

34. The cove before Toa

35. Survivor night

36. Orange cookies (and especially lemon cookies)

37. Game nights

38. Dominion

39. The 4000 kindle books list

40. Arrested Development

41. 30 Rock

42. Having geckos in the house

43. Tatter tots and chicken nuggets

44. Hot pockets

45. Delivery pizza!

46. Snorkeling

47. Swimming

48. Having time to read

49. Riding in the back of trucks

50. Bananas!

Things I Miss About Not American Samoa (at least some of the time)(even if I haven’t done it in years)(in no particular order):

51. My roommates

52. My family

53. Thursday nights (especially junior year. Especially with Gann)

54. Mary Ann’s

55. Cityside

56. JTree Swedish Fish

57. Starbucks

58. Pumpkin Spice Latte

59. Pumpkin Iced Coffee

60. Pumpkin muffin

61. Pumpkin donut

62. Pumpkin ice cream

63. Spring Break in Miami

64. Weekends in Chicago

65. Fall

66. Hocus Pocus

67. 13 Nights of Halloween

68. Hulu

69. The Gate

70. Slip and Sliding

71. Malls!

72. Club Claver

73. The lounge

74. CLXF

75. 602

76. Themed parties

77. Christmas (the Claver way)

78. Skiing

79. Boots

80. Sweatshirts

81. Skinny jeans

82. Straight hair

83. Going to school (as a student)

84. Rubi (the drink and the building)

85. The Real Housewives of New Jersey

86. Vampire Diaries

87. For All These Things We Are Thankful

88. Jugs of wine

89. SSS

90. Staying in bed until 2pm

91. Zebra chairs

92. Mods

93. Staying up late

94. Sleeping in

95. Cuban coffee

96. Lower (but not especially lower coffee)

97. Lab

98. Internet from home

99. Cities

100.                Tailgating

Neither of these are in any way complete lists, but for the sake of the 100 Days Celebration I figured I would stop at 100. Judging from the way I’ve been blogging lately, next up will be an updated list for the Last 100 Days… hehehe just kidding… Maybe….