Today was quite the adventure as we tried to go to Ikea using the Ikea bus, but were too late and missed it. So then I went in search of a heating pad for Kara for her back, which took me all over the city based on the Google searches I'd done (which again, how did anyone do anything before Google and the Internet??). I did eventually finally find one, as well as hangers, so success!
Though again, the fact it took sooo long to find an electric heating pad and hangers was really frustrating and one of those culture shock moments. I always thought culture shock was like your neighbor eating monkey brains and thinking nothing of it, but a lot of it is just the day to day stuff where what used to be trivial at home becomes a giant hassle in your new country. We were talking about how this is probably the worst Kara's had it since at least in Italy and Spain the culture is much warmer, and New Zealand is close enough to American culture (they just speak funny) so it didn't come up much. And this is all new to me so it's been much more difficult than I expected as well. Having to live somewhere is a FAR different experience than vacationing somewhere. When you're vacationing you're not trying to figure out how to find trash bags and then convert the liters on the box to the gallons you're used to to figure out which size to get for the kitchen trash can.
So to help fight it, I finished off the night with the ultimate French feast to remind us of why we were excited to move here: Fresh French bread, cheese, super cheap (3.50 euro) bottle of wine that was AMAZING, and a Bueno Bar, which is the best candy bar (besides a Snickers) known to man. I really don't understand why you can find them everywhere across the world except for the US. It was all delicious!
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