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I loved this country the moment I stepped off that plane. Although their cities isn't too big or like our at all, their countrysid emakes up for it. I thought about how wonderful it would be to be able to drive only about 30 minutes max, out of the city and be surrounded by beautiful hills and open fields. I guess my first impression was that their were so many animals and so little people. Auckland holds about 1/4 of the country's population so their countryside really has hardly any people. Besides that, my biggest culture shock was the landscape. We have nothing as beautiful as the mountain sides near us or really anywhere in our country. Their strange trees, abundance of sheep, and fog covered mounstains sprawl across the country. Never have I been able to just drive through such beauty, the camera can never capture how pretty the mountains are in reality. Secondly I couldn't get over the driving on the other side of the road. Watching cars drive the exact opposite of us just looked like mass chaos. Walking across streets and seeing people on the other side of the car was just bizarre. My third shock was how kind and inviting the Kiwi's are! Random people on the street asked us all about our trip and where we were from on a regular basis. Many of them gave us tips and advice on places we should go and things that we should do, some real inside knowledge of the country. People in America never really take the time to get to know strangers or customers, or at least not anymore. While walking into a cafe the owners were lounging around driking coffee and put no pressure on us to buy anything at all, infact they directed us to another near by cafe and asked if we needed to use their bathroom. Mostly what I am looking forward to is the Agrodome or the Hangi dinner. I want to experience some less tourist-y sites and get more in depth with their New Zeland culture.
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Today was mostly landing and driving throughout the rolling hills. We saw the complete beauty of it all just out our windows everywhere that we drove. It was only a hour drive through the country, but it was so beautiful. It was like driving straight onto a movie set in some far away forest or something, and now I see why New Zeland is chosen to shoot such scenes. When you get out of the countryside though, we came to a small little town with a bunch of cafe's and souvenirs. A little like the Wisconsin Dells. We only stopped for lunch though and then headed out to Rotorua and into the rotten egg smell for the next couple of days.
I loved this country the moment I stepped off that plane. Although their cities isn't too big or like our at all, their countrysid emakes up for it. I thought about how wonderful it would be to be able to drive only about 30 minutes max, out of the city and be surrounded by beautiful hills and open fields. I guess my first impression was that their were so many animals and so little people. Auckland holds about 1/4 of the country's population so their countryside really has hardly any people. Besides that, my biggest culture shock was the landscape. We have nothing as beautiful as the mountain sides near us or really anywhere in our country. Their strange trees, abundance of sheep, and fog covered mounstains sprawl across the country. Never have I been able to just drive through such beauty, the camera can never capture how pretty the mountains are in reality. Secondly I couldn't get over the driving on the other side of the road. Watching cars drive the exact opposite of us just looked like mass chaos. Walking across streets and seeing people on the other side of the car was just bizarre. My third shock was how kind and inviting the Kiwi's are! Random people on the street asked us all about our trip and where we were from on a regular basis. Many of them gave us tips and advice on places we should go and things that we should do, some real inside knowledge of the country. People in America never really take the time to get to know strangers or customers, or at least not anymore. While walking into a cafe the owners were lounging around driking coffee and put no pressure on us to buy anything at all, infact they directed us to another near by cafe and asked if we needed to use their bathroom. Mostly what I am looking forward to is the Agrodome or the Hangi dinner. I want to experience some less tourist-y sites and get more in depth with their New Zeland culture. 
Today was mostly landing and driving throughout the rolling hills. We saw the complete beauty of it all just out our windows everywhere that we drove. It was only a hour drive through the country, but it was so beautiful. It was like driving straight onto a movie set in some far away forest or something, and now I see why New Zeland is chosen to shoot such scenes. When you get out of the countryside though, we came to a small little town with a bunch of cafe's and souvenirs. A little like the Wisconsin Dells. We only stopped for lunch though and then headed out to Rotorua and into the rotten egg smell for the next couple of days.
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