The history of Chinese people in New Zealand

Ni hao! There is one particular group we talked about rather often, but didnt go particularly into detail. The came from over the pacific sea, just like the first Maori settlers, but their travel is much more recent. I’m talking about Chinese New…

New Zealand’s National Wizard

While searching for a topic for my next blog post, I came across this little fact: New Zealand has an officially appointed Wizard. And by officially appointed I mean, that the Prime Minister during that time signed a document which proclaims him to be “the first Wizard of New…

Celebrating birthdays and wedding anniversary in New Zealand history

In past years, it was believed by Maori that birthdays are time of bad spirits and danger, so people were making good wishes and their friends were surrounding them to get rid of bad spirits. Nevertheless…

KIWI

The Bird, Fruit and People

Kiwi — that word alone can bring up a lot of confusion. Why? Well, it not only describes one, not two, but three things.

And all of them have exactly one thing in common: They can be found in New Zealand.

Let’s Cook Some Maori “Kai“

New Zealand’s indigenous people — the Maori — were traditionally gatherers, crop farmers and hunters, who got…

Maori food- kai

After I watched a video, which shows how to cook traditional Maori style “Hangi”, I really wondered why Maori were cooking in the ground and what were their some traditional foods. Whereupon, I read a magazine about it, it gave me a kooky outlook on their different foods and I also learned why they…

Rugby, Racing, Beer: The Stereotypical Kiwi

Most countries usually feature a national ‘type’ such as the Germans are often being depicted as being well-organised men wearing lederhosen and drinking beer. But what does the stereotypical Kiwi look like?

Flight of the Conchords

Last week we watched the very first episode of a series called ‘Flight of the Conchords’ and honestly, I loved it. The humour of this series was just fitting my taste and naturally I wanted to see more. Luckily, YouTube offered quite some clips of them to amuse me. While watching I…

Waitomo Glowworm Caves

There are millions of things one can do when travelling through New Zealand. You could spend weeks or even months…

If I Were a German Teacher in New Zealand…

I’ve always dreamed of finishing my studies as a teacher to pursue my profession in a foreign country such as New Zealand. But is this even possible while having a different kind of educational background, not knowing the country-specific circumstances…