All articles by efogg

This is my last week in Wellington and being in New Zealand. I am very sad to be leaving and my time here has gone by way too fast. It felt like yesterday being at home and feeling extremely nervous that I would be going abroad to New Zealand. I had no idea what I
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Seeing Family

With my grandmother being born in New Zealand and growing up here I have a lot of family here in New Zealand that I want to meet. My grandmother had eight other siblings and there are a total 27 cousins from all of the children she and her siblings had. Unfortunately due to old age
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South Island

During the second half of my break I traveled through the South Island to see its beautiful scenery. After being in the North Island the week before I was excited to see what was offered in the South Island. My travel consisted of many long bus rides, and I got to meet many tourists who
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Backpacking Through the North Island

During the first part of my backpacking trip I went through all of the North Island. I stayed in Rotorua, Auckland and Paihia and I got to see the surrounding area. New Zealand is a very beautiful country with how it is not built up with new houses, and the effort that is made to
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Week Before Travel

So tomorrow I begin my big journey through New Zealand and I am super excited. I will be going through eight different cities and I will be checking out what each city has to offer. There was a lot of work put into my whole trip with everything. I had to balance out the time
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Pasifika Love

One thing that really interested my in coming to New Zealand was studying race relations here. I am a Black Studies and Sociology major and through classes I take for my majors I study race relations mainly in the United States. I wanted to see and compare race relations on New Zealand to the United
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So Much to do and So Much to See

With being so close to the city of Wellington, which is the capital of New Zealand I have been to the city a lot. There is so much to do for me there, and I love it. This is very different with having nothing to do living in a smal town, and having to take
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Papers

After two weeks of classes I have finally figured out what to expect from my classes. It is very different than the way classes are scheduled at SUNY New Paltz. With classes I have a lecture that meets twice a week, and then I go to a tutorial once a week. In a tutorial we
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Cultural Adjustment

Hello Again! I have been having an amazing time in New Zealand. One of the biggest adjustments for me was the cultural adjustment. I have never been to New Zealand before so I had no idea what the cultural adjustment was like for me. The adjustments have ranged from different names of food, to the
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Getting lost

I have had a wonderful first week in Wellington. I have had the experience of buying and making my own food, getting lost in the city at three in the morning, and meeting many nice Kiwis. Kiwis are people from New Zealand, the name Kiwi is not named after the fruit but the indigenous Kiwi
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Goodbye USA

During my last week at home before I left for New Zealand there was a lot I had to do. Since it was my last week I had to enjoy the food offered here that I is not in New Zealand. This included eating at my favorite restaurants, such as Subway, Panera’s, Chipotle, and my local Jamaican
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