Wednesday, April 25, 2012

What the Derriere?


This makes me laugh every time I see it, here's why: A kiwi is a fruit, a flightless bird, and a nationality (New Zealand) and the sign doesn't differentiate which kiwi the dog will eat. Ergo, be on guard all of the above.

Traveling across New Zealand, I came across the cleanest country ever. It's the first airport I've flown into and not had a slap of pollution hit me on the way out. Hostel's were another exciting adventure, especially when two of four toilets get cut from the equation and of the two showers, one's connected to the media room. Haha! An extreme favorite by far is how I can speak the same language as the locals and still have no idea what they're saying. 

One morning my friend started chatting about going to buy something necessary like a toothbrush. I mean, I packed everything in my bag, so I basically ignore this conversation. I ignore it until she says, "Yea, I'm going to have to go the dairy and buy one." Uh....... follow my inner dialog, "Dairy = cow. A farm? Toothbrush?" So I get over my confusion. "A what?" "A dairy, like 7/11," she says. "A convenience store?! Hold up, how do you know about 7/11?" (I hadn't seen one in New Zealand, my guess was she saw it in a movie) "Oh, I saw one in India."

Yes, we did just cross three continents to conclude that a dairy is in fact what I like to call a convenience store. The best part about this? None of the other Kiwi's know what 7/11 is.