Travels with Skis

Kiwis

Kiwis are weird. Really weird. They can't drive. For some reason, overtaking on a blind corner on a mountain road (unpaved), seems like a really good idea to them. Kids in the car don't seem to change their driving habits. Perhaps they are used to controlling spinning cars, and they like the challange, but I have to say, it freaks the hell out of me.


Kiwi delacacies: chocolate fish (marshmallow covered in dark chocolate), hokey pokey icecream (icecream with honeycomb bits designed to remove fillings), whitebate (okay, so the last one is pretty damn tastey)


Kiwi sayings: "it's all good". In itself this saying is fine, but what the Kiwis don't realise, is that they have unleashed it onto the travelling English population. For some reason the Brits seem to go to great pains to assimilate the local language. The Americans, or anyone else for that matter, don't seem to have the need to pick up the local vernacular. The Brits on the other hand seem to have the huge urge to fit in. The result is English people throwing around Kiwi expressions like they are going out of fashion. If only they could hear themselves:
Dave: I broke my arm today!
Rebecca: It's all good!
If you ever hear me say "it's all good" on my return, please shoot me. We should leave these things to the pros - if a Kiwi says "it's all good", then it's time to kick back and chill out, as after all, the chances are, things are probably...

Number two on the list, and probably the most uttered words in NZ: "Sweet as!". I am still trying to find out what 'sweetness' vertually everything in NZ is compared to. Sugar? Honey? Dessert wine? Given the frequency with which this particular saying is uttered, I am guessing 'cheese'.

Treble Cone: If you ski at Treble Cone you're known as a 'conehead'. I will let you draw your own conclusions, but I can assure you, it is 'sweet as'!

posted by snow_gibbon @ 3:05 pm