• Reading a good book.
• Teaching students in Vietnam how to play American drinking games.
• Finding someone you can have a great conversation with.
• Realizing that no matter how far away you are, some things don't have to change.
• Also realizing that no distance can stand in the way of good friends.
• Celebrating New Years Eve twice in one year. (Happy lunar new year!)
• Knowing that I hate winters in Boston, but missing it anyway.
• When missing something doesn't make you sad, but happy because you have something to look forward to (even if its not for a really, really long time. 
• Simple things that make you laugh.
• Watching The Office.
• Finding a friend in a complete stranger. 
• New music.