Introduction

Well, at this point I have actually been in New Zealand, land of the Kiwis, for almost three months. I moved to Auckland, NZ from Pittsburgh, PA (USA) at the end of August 2008 for a two-year tour with my company. I finally decided to start one of these Blogs since I am pretty terrible at sending out emails and pictures so I figured this will be a way for me to keep friends and family up to date on my life 10,000 miles away from home. I'll have to backtrack a little bit for some of these earlier posts, but I think I remember everything pretty well still. I've also made a number of observations during my time here so far of things that just seem completely backwards in this country, but also things that I have been pretty impressed with. I intend to keep an ongoing list of these observations throughout my time here.