Life in New Zealand
Gidday…. No, it’s not just the bloody Aussies that say that, kiwis say it too. Anyway, life in New Zealand. You know what, it’s not until you leave New Zealand, that you realise how cool it really is. For those of us who have left, we get reminded nearly every day by a complete stranger of what a beautiful country we have. First we get told, “I love your accent”, then it’s, “where do you come from”?, then (if they’ve even heard of the place) they ask, “what the hell are you doing here”.
I live in Texas, where you have to travel a million miles to the beach. Which is one of the things I took for granted when I lived in NZ. Your never more than 128kms from the beach. But most of the time you’re usually about 45 minutes away. That’s one of the things we used to do most weekends in the Summer. We would wake up on Sunday, sore as hell from playing 7s, or touch, rugby, and hungover, then we’d drive to the Mount (Mt Maunganui), go for a swim, then go to sleep on the beach. Most of the time we would wake up red as Santa’s jacket. You have to be really careful with the uv rays in NZ now, as the sun burn time can be as little as 5 minutes. When we woke up we would be as hungry as a bloody bear. So we’d pitch in (put our money together) and go and buy some fish and chips, or Mc Donalds.
Mt Maunganui
Fish and chips is another part of life in New Zealand that I miss. You can’t beat a good feed of fish and chips in New Zealand. Order $4 worth of chips,(fries), 3 pieces of fish, 2 hotdogs (battered sausage on a stick), and 4 potato fritters, then ask your mates if they want anything. Get a loaf of bread, and some butter, (then butter the bread) and some Watties tomato sauce (ketchup), unwrap it all (from the newspaper it was wrapped up in) on the living room floor, or coffee table, then go nuts, eat the lot. The bread and butter is for chip sandwiches, Just squash some chips up between 2 pieces of bread and butter, with heaps of sauce on it. Then let all the butter and sauce drip down the favourite shirt your wearing.
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That’s not all life in New Zealand is, there’s a lot more to it than that, but fish and chips, playing rugby, and going to the beach, sure played a big part of my life in New Zealand. Cheers.
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Bloody hell u just described one of my many weekends at home in new zealand..except it wasnt Mt Manganui i went to it was castle point..to get crays and pauia..yummy…or himitangi or foxton beaches i went to..god damn it now i really miss home even more than i did b4 and like u i miss the fish and chips do the fries over here just dont cut it compared to a good feed of kiwi fish N chips…some more stuff i miss is vegemite and weet-bix and of course all the fresh sea food…
Debbie said this on April 13th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
great to go through your site. i’ve just read a couple of articles and that brought back to me a few matchless memories of my 1-year stay in nz exactly three years ago now. for instance, that picture above of tauranga beach reminds me of my first time there and how i ended up in the water with my leather shoes on after a friend pushed me into a wave coming over.. i’m from madrid (spain) by the way, and felt just at home all the time. to be honest, i miss some nz things like L&P, makis, food courts, watching people barefooted even in the rain, the landscapes and the overall relaxing atmosphere everywhere..
anyways, congrats on the site and hope you keep it up!!
jorge
jorge said this on December 1st, 2008 at 11:30 pm