These past couple of days have been one of the most mixed emotion filled days. Between the laughter, the panic, the crankyness, the sweating and the smelling it has been a good and eventful time. The first flight was from chicago to LAX. Originally when we got to ohare it took 3 hours to get our tickets for the plane because the system kept rebooting. After that we were frantic and rushing to go board the plane. Right when it was our time to board the plane they made an announcement that they holders about everyones seats were to full and we did not have enough room to bring our luggage on board, so some students had to check their luggage.Luckily, I was one of the students that did not have to check my luggage. My friend Kelsy was someone who had to check her bags, and she was so panicked because this meant it was being checked internationally. We were boarding 2 different planes just to get to Auckland. When we first landed in Auckland the view was gorgeous. Every where I looked their were mountains. I was in awe. The first thing we did once we landed was visited a town called hobbiton. This town was where Lord Of The Rings was filmed. This is really sweet becase my dad and I use to was these movies together.We had lunch in this little town and I tried my first meal that was different. In New Zealand they eat alot of pies. I was in a little cafe, and I wanted to try a "pizza pie", The first bite I took I realized that this was not a pizza pie. Inside the crust was egg and ham. I was literally so confused. It was not terrible but deffinately not what I had expected. After this town we went to a place that had a gondala ride and that had a thing called luging. Luging is when you take a go-kart kind of thing down a massive track/hill.At first I thought this was going to scary but once I got to the top I new I had to try it.. I mean you only live once. I really wish America would invest in getting a luge track. After spending time up on the mountain we then took the gondala back down and hoped on our coach bus. We took the coach bus into a town called Rotorua. Rotorua is known for the hot springs all throughout the city. The air constantly smells like sulfer. We went to the jade factory in Rotorua and watched how the men made the jade go from a rock into a piece of jewelry. It was very facinating. This day was very long and tiring, the whole day I felt dirty because as soon as I got off a 18 hour flight I was going into the day of events our tour guide had planned.
Three major things different from America to New Zealand -
1.) Pedestrians have the right away in America, and in New Zealand it does not seem that way. A person could tell we were americans by the way we crossed the street.
2.) In America we call lettuce, lettuce, and in New Zealand they say salad
3.)The toilets flush very differently in New Zealand rather then the water being sucked down and then more water coming in from around the upper part of the toilet, a big stream of water comes from the front half of the toilet. All the toilets also have the one flush two flush things to conserve water.
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