My favorite thing about life in A2

It has been almost a year since Corey and I moved out to Ann Arbor. We were immediately taken with all there is to do, eat, and experience here. We came from a relatively small town, so we reveled in the variety of culture, cuisine, and people in A2.

After living her for 10 months, settling into a routine, and generally making a life here, I began to reflect on what I like the most about my life here: my new friends.

I'm a very social-relational person. I love being around people, talking and sharing ideas. It's not surprising to me that I've become attached to certain people so quickly.

This is not to say that I don't miss my Wisconsin friends. Many of them are going through HUGE milestones right now, and I'm so sad I can't be right there with them soaking in all the joys and supporting them through all the rough patches. I do my best over the phone, but I miss them terribly, and they will never been replaced in my heart.

On that note, I was actually worried about making friends in this new life initially. I was worried that, now that I'm a "grown-up" I wouldn't bond with new people like I would my college and high school friends. They new me at my craziest, and they still stick by me. How could I form a bond with someone who met me after the "crazy" is no longer age appropriate? (I know I'm being a little hard on myself. I'm only 25.)

But it turned out that I met some amazing people who are just like me. We were all brought to this town for school, work, or by our significant others to try to make our way as adults, and that's definitely something to bond over. We still get silly (plenty silly), but we talk about careers, mortgages, and future families.

I really love that my new friends are from all over the country, some from places I've never been. We grew up with slightly different values and we have different tastes in what constitutes the ultimate in home cooking, but we fit together in awesome harmony. Sure, my Bostonian friends prefer Sam Adams over Leinenkugal's, my friends from the South and I will never agree on iced tea, and I'm never quite going to get what's the big flipping deal about Chik-fil-a, but we are getting along great.