We Are.....Learning!

Hi Again! No pictures yet. As soon as I have my computer up and working I promise that no post will be without one! Another week has gone, if all goes well we are down to 11 days! Feels a bit like deja vu. I drove myself down to my in-laws today! First time on the motor way. I learned something interesting. The speed limit signs are NOT, I repeat NOT just silly signs on the road! They are there, as I learned today, to help people not get run over on their first time driving in a foreign country! You would think it was a simple as staying on the left hand side. There are so many more implications; blinker, also on the left, how many times I have now turned on my windshield wiper for no reason! How about exiting on the left, the left being the SLOW lane.. The list goes on and on.. I have found myself feeling more like a child than I have in a long time. literally learning by example.. For instance driving to my home I am on the left hand side but need to turn right. So, I am waiting for the oncoming traffic to have a break to go thru.. Just as I am ready to start swearing, a car in the oncoming right hand side lane stops and lets me go!!! I think to myself this has got to be the nicest country EVER! Crazy enough it happened again two days latter. I started doing it in return just because I didn't want to be pegged as the rude American. Then, my landlord came over last night and as we were visiting she asked, "so, have you figured out that if the person in the right hand lane is turning and there is someone waiting in the left hand lane to turn the right hand lane person gives way (yield) to the left hand turning?". So my lesson this week is that, maybe it is nice, or maybe it is a LAW.

More next week....

We Are..... Waiting!

Well, It has been almost three weeks. No Eki yet. The hardest part has been not being able to talk to him to hear how he is doing. I did finally get to hear his voice yesterday. That was great, but the news that it brought me was that I will be alone until at least the 28th of this month. Gotta love the customs process! New Zealand (after the initial shock!) has been kind to me and a fun new atmosphere! Anywhere I go, as soon as I open my mouth the whole room looks to see who has the "accent"! I laugh everytime! That is it for now, more to come...