Kiwis and their country

Kiwis are awesome people.  I've decided that they are all laid back and on island time, but they are all really friendly and I've made more kiwi friends already than I expected too.  I'm skiing this weekend and borrowed gear from a kiwi, today in class one of my kiwi friends gave me a venison and swan sausage that he made from his hunt.  I put in a word that I want to join him on a hunt if the schedules work out!  We may go to another kiwi's family cattle/sheep farm about 2 hours from school for the weekend next weekend because her dad was all excited to show us around his farm and we were excited to see it!  I also found a sweet fruit stand on campus that's really good and really cheap!  This post is kind of random, but I just am realizing how friendly the locals here are and I've already got friends in all of my classes and from outside of class and wanted to write about it.  One kid Josh is already a pretty good "mate."  This country is basically every cool feature of America in a country with the land mass of Colorado and half the population of NYC. Well, off to Wanaka to ski at Treble Cone one day and probably Cardrona the second day!