- when you forget how it is you're constantly surrounded by snow (or you just stop noticing the snow all together) because it's always too cold to actually snow
- when snow-shoe baseball is really a sport, played outside in the middle of February
- when moose decorate lawns & the city like ornamental ceramic deer used in the lower 48
- when the rest of America is referred to (& thought of) as the "Lower 48"
- when anything above 10 degrees is warm enough to go without long underwear
- when anything above 20 degrees is warm enough to drive with the windows down
- when enormous snow blowers suck up the snow on roads, spray it into dump trucks only to haul it across town & use it to cover other roads for dog-sled racing tracks.
- when snowmobiling is known as snow-machining
- when boots are perfectly acceptable bar & dancing footwear
- when you leave the kitchen faucet dripping over night so that the pipes don't freeze
- when you put your food outside when the refrigerator is full
- when hot water is HOT WATER. no messin' around about heat here.
- when children spend their recess doing laps around the playground on skis in tshirts
- when anything people typically do for summertime entertainment in the Lower 48 takes place (& is enjoyed!) outdoors in the middle of the winter.
I have so much to learn.
1 comment:
you know you live in New Zealand when:
1-I don't get looked at weird for walking in my bare feet through Wellington
2-My second favourite KP is a road called Kelburn Parade, which goes through Victoria University
3-people say 'wee' like me all the time
4-all you see in the news is earthquakes, and wonder when the next rumble might rumble.
I could acually try to think of a proper list, but meh. I spend enough time as it is writing emails and all that.:D
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