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Things to Miss about NZ & going Home

NEW ZEALAND | Monday, 14 May 2007 | Views [439]

I'm going home in 2 days--what a bittersweet feeling, as always! Things to Miss about NZ: Big Bikkies, Whittaker's almond chocolate bars, Tim Tam Slams, Hokey Pokey icecream eating 5 meals/day (breakfast, tea, elevenses, lunch, tea, dinner, supper, etc.) kettles & tea lack of pretention w/ income, career status, prestige, intellecutalization, & appearance mellow, laid-back lifestyle constant flow of travelers, the intermixing of cultures, the large ratio of non-native NZers living permanently in NZ bewitching mountains, forests, rivers, rocks, beaches lack of dangerous, poisonous animals, @ least while hiking in mountainous territory & having to place one's hands in covered crevasses of trees & such being around people who are allowed to have pride in their country, who love their country & what it has to offer my new friends from around the world "extreme" activities cheap vehicles lack of waste, recycling values my personal lack of responsibility to anyone but myself Things to Appreciate about going Home: family & friends! fast inernet connections, wireless, free internet (& CDs & DVDs) @ the library, constant access to computers Mexican food (including quasi-Mex, like Taco Bell!), graham crackers (necessary for s'mores, lacking in our fires on the beach), Ben & Jerry's lower cost of living/less expensive to go out to eat reverting back to privacy concerning political views fleeing the skinny jeans trend prevalent in NZ sweet sweet stuff no life-size Mr. Bean posters! ambition in people, access to resources & jobs, schools, businesses, stores free nights & weekends stunning landscapes of the U.S. not being the arrogant, consumer-mad, environment-destroying, war-mongering, redneck, lazy, condescending, processed/preservative-ridden/fast/junk food- eating, disdained, materialistic, ignorant- of- the- world, destroyer of the world via political, religious, environmental, economic, & medical beliefs, American. (not that this attitude is always prevalent, but one of these issues will usually pop up eventually)

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