Surpassed all expectations

I didn't think one semester would be long enough to fall in love with a place like I did with Auckland. The city is beautiful, vibrant and amazingly safe compared to the big US city I attend university in normally. The university is huge but by joining the campus Glee club, I met fellow nerdy musicians and found a family of friends in the short time I was studying abroad. The classes are more final exam-oriented than classes in the US, so that was a strange transition, but the classes seemed to be of the same difficulty level of classes at home.