haha. That's funny, I've never seen so much rain since I've been here. And since there's nothing much else to do when you live in NZ except analyse the weather (which we are experts at), we have come to the conclusion that the rain is wetter in the Gold Coast, and the drops are bigger.
Wasn't there a big feud years ago about the sheep shearing too. I remember something about that, you guys used different shears and .... well that's all I can remember.
About the sports, well the whole country goes into mourning when we lose the rugby. We win, it's on every front page newspaper in the country and everyone's patting each other on the back. I always found that a bit strange, there could be a major earthquake somewhere in the world with 1,000s of people dead, but the rugby will be on the front page if we won.
I find the States thing here really quite strange sometimes, they're like their little own countries aren't they. We've got some people from Victoria down the street, and they were talking about how their kids have never played rugby league before, they don't know the rules, cos they don't play it down there. Heaps of people from Victoria on the Gold Coast too.
Yes, I agree with the whanau (family) thing, but the Greeks and Italians would all have the same kind of extended family concept thing going on too wouldn't they. My husbands family is huge too, his mother was one of 18 and he has 10 siblings.
Funny thing yesterday though, talk about those bloody Kiwi's in Aussie thing. My husband is a Maori and his cousin and family live in this really flash area in Benowa. They got a dam hangi pit in their backyard. So yesterday rings up to invite us around for a feed, hubby went round early to help him dig the hole. Anyway I turn up in the afternoon, they take the hangi baskets out. I said "whats those green leaves on top of the hangi basket, are they banana leaves (we don't have them in NZ). Cousin said "yep". Oh cool I said (cos banana leaves are very cool!) where did you get those. He said "Coles". I said "wow, that's so cool, I didn't know they sold banana leaves there. He said "they don't. Seem's he said to my hubby, hey come down to Coles with me, I've gotta go get some banana leaves, my husband said the same thing, do they sell them there (he gets excited over banana leaves too, so exotic!). They pull into the carpark, park discreetly behind the Coles sign, his cousin jumps into the back of the truck, pulls out his extended loppers, and starts pruning the dam banana tree in the carpark. My husband starts freaking out, OMG, you're gonna get us in trouble, hurry up. So everytime I looked at these dam banana leaves last night I just cracked up laughing.
). You guys get rain.
