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10 Things I Miss About Southern California

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Kacey Rowe

Dec 19, 2016

UNC Pembroke

10 Things I Miss About Southern California

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California is hands down the best state in America! It has beautiful beaches, redwood trees, mountain scenes, Disneyland! It is filled with diversity and magic, great people and even better food. It is a privilege to live there, and a terrible goodbye when you have to leave. I lived in Tustin for two years and San Diego for ten, before venturing off to other parts of the world. Yet that golden state is always in the back of my mind. Here are the top ten things I miss about Southern California.

1) The beaches

The beaches are gorgeous! The sand is soft as butter. The waves are perfect every day for surf, boogie boarding, and body surfing. The sunset is indescribable. The water gets a little cold at times, but you get used to that!

2) The food

You can find any and every kind of food here, and it is all delicious. Some of the best food I have ever had in my life, I ate while in California.

3) In-N-Out

BEST BURGERS EVER! Best fast food ever! Try it and you will love it. And when you get, get it done animal style!

4) Disneyland

Its the happiest place in the world! And so conveniently close. Who doesn't love feeling like a kid again.

5) Old Town

This is a great touristy spot! It has great history, culture, food, shops. They have the best homemade tortillas, and Mexican cuisine! Please the greatest haunted house every!

6) Sea World

This was always great going to as a kid. And despite all of the backlash Sea World gets, its a really great place.

7) The San Diego Zoo

Its seems like every year, every grade, you had to take at least on field trip to the zoo. Every time relatives would come and visit, you would have to bring them also. Even though you know the zoo like the back of your had it was always a fun thing to do, plus the tickets are pretty cheap!

8) California Slang

Its the only place you can call anyone a dude and they don't look at you like your crazy. No one gets made when you say "like" after every couple of words. And things are hella cool.

9) The Weather

Its always sunny, and warm! Rain and snow are disaster weather storms.

10) The People

Outsiders may say that people from California are rude, and different. But when your a local, everyone around you is like a big family. When you leave you can't help but miss every person you ever met while living there.

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10 Things I Miss About Southern California

Dude!

1) The beaches

2) The food

3) In-N-Out

4) Disneyland

5) Old Town

6) Sea World

7) The San Diego Zoo

8) California Slang

9) The Weather

10) The People

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

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4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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