Disorientation Week: take 2

I said this to someone recently, that I wasn't sure whether I was going home or leaving home, and was heartily reassured that that disorientation would affect me from now onwards. On the morn of my graduation, and second last night in school (provided I'm able to leave at all considering the fact that my clearance form has gone walkabouts), here's me summing up not just positives and negatives but the lifestyle of this 70's prison we call a school and a home, in comparison to what I remember of the home I'll be back to in two weeks.

Leaving home means no more Hui Lau Shan  Forked lighning Cockroaches in the sink  Interdorming Mosquito bites  Free hair cuts Block 3 pizza/cha siu fan Wearing only leggings Internet ban  Glenda sneezes  Pressure in the third shower  Kowloon Dairy  Stairs  Boones  Signing in and out  Jubes  Check in  Ants in the 4th toilet Walking on the grey tiles in the rain IB  Ordering in broken canto MTR  Skyscrapers  Effective public transport Free airport wifi Humidity  MOS apple pies  Living opposite a mountain  Swimming with no swimcap  Waterfall  HK City Hall Library days Wellcome  Baozi  Typhoons  Fro Yo  Chocolate powder ice-cream sauce  Red taxis  Sneaking out  Gatings  Canteen parties  Trams  Dragon boat  Cheap postage  YMCA roof  Mee & Gee atrocities Pretending to be a tourist Lung cancer  Brunch  Expats  Custard buns  Service planning  Thai curry for lunch Drinking in the street People who can dance Latinas  Paisanos  Sad nights in the library Broken curtain rails Student kitchen produce Chungking Mansions Linda e-mails (plz god) Air con 681, A41p, k807, 299, 1A  Phytoplankton  BOB Brown line Design labs La Bodega Rush at Mong Kok Worrying about Steve/Trevor/Brian being in the gym Lee On McDonalds Smirnoff Slushees Bubble Tea Annoying birds Managebac Grand dictations Condensed milk toast GIFs Travelling with Maddie In my country... Broken bikes Pacific Place toilets Egg waffles Concrete Hot rain Arrogant Frog Lino floor Angry cicadas Trevor whiteboard Mass e-mails Block 2 bench

Going home means more Baths Stocked fridges Come Dine With Me Town Reese's peanut butter cups Real milk Penney's The nal Sessions Cycling Breathable air Dore's Rabbits BBC radio 4 Putting on the dishwasher Texting Doing Clob's hair Tea (!) Bulmers Green Stir frys Getting lifts Sheep Sleep Weeding Body & Soul Rain Mint Crisp days Billy Byrnes The Rocco's/Larkin's debate Of Clody's elbow's in my tea Calling dinner tea Saying rubbers, plasters, rubbish bins, pavements America's Next Top Model Castle park Curry chips Dip dabs Shifting, less making out Arts Festival Langers and lickdipses Eating bread rolls whilst going round Supervalu Tracy's treehouse Shops closing at 6 Top 40 Oifigiúil na hÉireann Sitting in a car Darkness at night Museli Leprechauns Talking in tea rooms God awful attempts at customising clothes Ditto going to the gym Dressing gowns Camping It being hotter inside than outside Muller corners Privacy Records Chapattis Scacraicbant Badedas Stars Jenkinstown Picnics outta Dunnes New socks Boredom Sitting by the old pool eating Dominos' meateor Downloading films Sue Ryder shop Poulanassy Loud music Bedroom dancing Jaffa cakes G.O.L.D. Flash animation Hoovering Parents BBQ Hula Hoops Beat the bomb Change in jellies Regularly washed clothes Time for Soggy Twiglets?