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Kiwi Care – The ACC is Awesome

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A version of this blog post was published in the tbt* So at the moment I don’t have any medical insurance (shame on me, it expired last month.) Just the other day, in a very uncoordinated first attempt to snowboard down Mt. Taranaki’s bunny slope, I stuffed-up a basic toe-turn and landed with full force…

Farewell Welly

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My days in Wellington are numbered. For three months I have filled my days working at little ole Olive Cafe in Wellington. Pinching my pennies and selling myself short, I now have a pile of coins tall enough to send me packing again. This was no easy feat. I was cutting corners and making sacrifices…

A Trip to the Wairarapa

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In just 7 days, I have seen more of New Zealand than in the past two months. What was the occasion? Alexander James was in town! I took some time off from work and Alex and I hit the road. Well, first we hit the streets of Wellington. In a nutshell, Zealandia was dinosaur playland,…

Homegrown New Zealand: Media Pass!

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It smelled homegrown. It sounded homegrown. It was authentic. Cheers to my first festival photo gig: New Zealand’s Homegrown 2013. Invited along by Alexander Bisley of The Lumiere Reader and asked to shoot an interview with Savage (you know that song ‘Swing’ from Knocked Up? yeah, that’s Savage), I was given an all-access media pass.…

An American in New Zealand

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I’m here. I made it to New Zealand. I didn’t miss my flight – ahem, Indo – and I’m not sleeping in the gutter … yet, but I’m sure the odds are against me because I’m American. What I mean is that ever since I arrived here in Kiwitown, my welcome wagon has been giving…
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