Home-sickle

I'm getting my fist case of the home-sick illness here in New Zealand. Even though I am surrounded by love from awesome friends family, it still doesn't suit my comfort level. And I thought independence came easy in the States... well it’s a little more difficult when you don’t have your ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’ phone life line. Getting a job, flat, car or bike, bank account, furniture, etc is not as simple as I thought. haha.

You get to a point after traveling a long time, when you become exhausted from assimilation and proper culture correction. Let me be me. Let me be an American, from the east coast, from little old Wilmington North Carolina or Annapolis Maryland. You crave those COMFORT places, foods, people, and routines. Not JANDALS or

SLIPPERS, they are called “flip flops” people!

Heres some more so that you can see what I mean:
NZ term _______________ USA
Lollies Candy
Boot/Bonnet Trunk and Hood of car
Tea Dinner
Biscuit Cookies
Capsicum Green/Red/Yellow Pepper
Trolley Shopping Cart
Fizzy Soda
Lemonade Sprite
Kumura Pumpkin
Jersey Sweatshirt
Plasters Bandaid

Well I hope you catch my drift now! That’s only a few of the tiny conversation changes I must make. It’s a bit irritating after awhile.
Hahah. I think I will live though. Just maybe. Haha.

Well let me backtrack… ‘what else is new in Jill’s life?’ Oh right. My job interview! It went really well. It was at brand new fitness facility in Hamilton, called ‘Flex Fitness’. I would fill the position as a sales and marketing consultant. The title doesn’t really do it justice though. What they are really looking for is a person who thinks creatively and is highly driven and self motivated. They need someone who would set up tents at sporting events, approach businesses, and thinks of new ways to promote their facility and gain memberships. I think I’ve got the creativity end of it, the rest would need some work though. Heres the website if you’re interested http://www.flexfitnessgym.co.nz/ .. And I’m still waiting to hear back from other jobs. So we’ll see what happens. I’ll need something soon here, before I go CraZy!

That’s pretty much all I can think of at the moment!

Take it easy yo,
Jilly