Had a chat with a local barista and used “sunny as” in a sentence. I’m totally blending in now. 

Limes are yellow here. The big ones in the photo are lemons but the small ones are actually limes! 

My afternoon tonic that gets me through a triage shift (basically our urgent care at the clinic). These flat whites give me life.

The girls participated in the Tough Guy Tough Gal Challenge this year. Their classes traveled to Rotorua to run a muddy obstacle course through the hills. A lot of fun was had by all!

 

Clark is touring the two colleges in town to decide where he’d like to attend next year. He’s really excited about it - particularly hearing about all the cool subjects he can choose from. 

College = high school in New Zealand. 

I had porridge for breakfast this morning. That’s what they call oatmeal here. 

I have a cold and a coworker jokingly asked if I was feeling like a box of fluffies. I legitimately stared at him until he explained that this means you’re feeling great. The slang here is hilarious!

They don’t call the replacement for a sick teacher a substitute teacher or even a sub, they call it a “reliever.”

It’s not called “jello” or gelatin, but jelly. Which explains why all the kids laugh hysterically when Clark says he is having peanut butter and jelly. 

If you don’t feel well, you might say you’re feeling “crook” or that you aren’t feeling that flash. 

“Just come back this arvo to pick it up”

Arvo = afternoon

I like this one. 

The first time a patient told me that they “took a concrete pill,” I thought I must be misunderstanding a brand name for a medication. Turns out, they just meant they’d been toughing it out. 

I biked to work in -3 this morning and I had little ice crystals in my eyebrows when I got to work.

 I bought a window vacuum yesterday. Single-glazed windows means that we get A LOT of condensation on the windows when it’s really cold outside. Until now, I’d been mopping up the windows with towels, but another hockey parent tipped me off that lots of people use these to help keep up. It works well! Would I prefer that I didn’t need to vacuum my windows in the morning? Definitely. But if I have to deal with condensation, this is a better way than sopping wet towels.