{"id":52153,"date":"2016-04-20T16:20:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T20:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/?p=52153"},"modified":"2016-04-25T11:02:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T15:02:44","slug":"finding-home-in-new-zealand-lessons-from-an-expat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/fr\/journal\/finding-home-in-new-zealand-lessons-from-an-expat\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Home in New Zealand: Lessons From an Expat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is part of a Wanderlust series from Wanderlusters in <a href=\"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/festivals\/thredbo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Australia<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/festivals\/great-lake-taupo\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand<\/a>. Check back for more Dispatches From Down Under. Be sure to check out a Wanderlust event Down Under as well!<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I\u2019ve spent the <a href=\"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/journal\/feel-confident-uncertainty\/\" target=\"_blank\">last six months<\/a> asking New Zealanders nosy questions. I\u2019ve crisscrossed the land by bus, bike, and jetboat, pressing them about <a href=\"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/journal\/maori-tattoos-identity-family-and-honor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maori tattoos<\/a>, native tree species, and proper usage of the phrase \u201cshe\u2019ll be right\u201d (gender neutral, never pluralized, FYI). What I\u2019ve learned is this: Relative to its size, New Zealand has a disproportionate cultural depth and richness. This small country feels enormous\u2014thanks in part to its huge heart.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_52168\" class=\"thumbnail alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52168\" src=\"http:\/\/live-wanderlust-fest.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-Leo-Image-768x435.png\" alt=\"Photo by #Amandalaphotography\" width=\"768\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-Leo-Image-768x435.png 768w, https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-Leo-Image-992x562.png 992w, https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-Leo-Image.png 1404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><div class=\"caption\">Photo by #Amandalaphotography<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em>\u00ab\u00a0Because we\u2019re so far away and so small, we\u2019ve been forced to create our identity through the little things. It\u2019s going to the dairy on a hot day, getting an ice cream. But then when you go to the beach your ice cream melts and falls on the sand, and a disappointed yet humble silence follows. That\u2019s being Kiwi.\u00a0\u00bb \u2013 Leo Murray, Mount Maunganui<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_52172\" class=\"thumbnail alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52172\" src=\"http:\/\/live-wanderlust-fest.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-Arterium_boat_032-768x435.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Arterium\" width=\"768\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-Arterium_boat_032-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-Arterium_boat_032-992x562.jpg 992w, https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-Arterium_boat_032.jpg 1404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><div class=\"caption\">Photo by Arterium<\/div><\/div>\n<p>The topography of <a href=\"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/journal\/wanderlusters-in-the-wilderness\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand is wild<\/a> and unforgiving. But its people are enterprising, inviting, and open. New Zealand is full of these polarities. Like how a country with so few people (New York City has more people than the entire country) can feel at once so isolated yet so <a href=\"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/journal\/gratitude-revealed-connection\/\" target=\"_blank\">connected<\/a>. It\u2019s this dynamic that fosters so much depth. New Zealand isn\u2019t just sheep and camper vans. It\u2019s a place experiencing constant change. Tectonic plates are dragging the two islands apart, driving the mountains upward, and boiling sulfuric waters to the surface. In a world where we\u2019re increasingly fearful, New Zealanders sustain an openness and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yoganonymous.com\/5-pranayama-breathing-techniques-for-focus-and-calm\" target=\"_blank\">calm<\/a> amid the persistent shift of their land and social diversity.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_52175\" class=\"thumbnail alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52175\" src=\"http:\/\/live-wanderlust-fest.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-PeterSedlackic102-768x435.png\" alt=\"Photo by Peter Sedlackic\" width=\"768\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-PeterSedlackic102-768x435.png 768w, https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-PeterSedlackic102-992x562.png 992w, https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-PeterSedlackic102.png 1404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><div class=\"caption\">Photo by Peter Sedlackic<\/div><\/div>\n<p><i>\u00ab\u00a0Kiwis have an innate ingenuity, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/journal\/returning-ourselves-to-the-wild\/\" target=\"_blank\">deep connectedness to nature<\/a>. We have a self-reliance that drives us to do, build, and create things by ourselves.\u00a0\u00bb <\/i><em>\u2013<\/em> <i>Imogen Shepard, Auckland<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_52179\" class=\"thumbnail alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52179\" src=\"http:\/\/live-wanderlust-fest.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-Arterium_XR_111-768x435.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Arterium\" width=\"768\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-Arterium_XR_111-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-Arterium_XR_111-992x562.jpg 992w, https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-Arterium_XR_111.jpg 1404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><div class=\"caption\">Photo by Arterium<\/div><\/div>\n<p>As an outsider working her way in my curiosity has been encouraged and welcomed. Natives didn\u2019t even balk when I asked \u201cMeat? In a pie?\u201d I have felt at home so fast, thanks in part to fellow Wanderlusters and my <a href=\"http:\/\/yoganonymous.com\/3-shifts-that-happen-when-you-find-your-tribe\" target=\"_blank\">yogi tribe<\/a>. At festivals like Wanderlust, we create communities that become our home\u2014albeit just for a few days\u2014using yoga as a conduit to connect deeper to <a href=\"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/journal\/nature-as-our-sacred-yoga-studio\/\" target=\"_blank\">ourselves, the Earth<\/a>, and each other.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/journal\/elena-brower-spiritual-partnership-respect-practice\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elena Brower<\/a>, teaching a class at a <a href=\"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/festivals\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wanderlust Festival<\/a> in Australia said: \u201cHome isn\u2019t a place, it\u2019s a state of consciousness.\u201d Kiwis seem to have internalized this sentiment: from rebuilding the earthquake-humbled Christchurch, to accommodating the fickle shift of sand dunes in Whatipu. Their home is in a constant state of flux.<\/p>\n<p>As Wanderlust\u2019s NZ director Jonnie Halstead once told me: \u201cKiwis are naturally more mindful.\u201d When you grow up around these shockingly beautiful landscapes, steeped in sacred Maori mythologies, it\u2019s hard not to internalize a deep, vibrational connection to the land.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_52181\" class=\"thumbnail alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52181\" src=\"http:\/\/live-wanderlust-fest.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-Arterium_C8A9894-768x435.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Arterium\" width=\"768\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-Arterium_C8A9894-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-Arterium_C8A9894-992x562.jpg 992w, https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-Arterium_C8A9894.jpg 1404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><div class=\"caption\">Photo by Arterium<\/div><\/div>\n<p><i>\u00ab\u00a0To live as a New Zealander is to be connected to the land and sea, to honor and respect not just the indigenous culture but to welcome and connect with all those who land on these shores.\u00a0\u00bb<\/i> <em>\u2013<\/em> <i>Matiu Te Huki, Paekakariki<\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_52183\" class=\"thumbnail alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52183\" src=\"http:\/\/live-wanderlust-fest.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-Photo-by-amandalaphotography-Day-1-185-768x435.png\" alt=\"Photo by #amandalaphotography\" width=\"768\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-Photo-by-amandalaphotography-Day-1-185-768x435.png 768w, https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-Photo-by-amandalaphotography-Day-1-185-992x562.png 992w, https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust-Photo-by-amandalaphotography-Day-1-185.png 1404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><div class=\"caption\">Photo by #amandalaphotography<\/div><\/div>\n<p>So far in my six months I\u2019ve hiked in sub-zero temperatures and skinny-dipped in steaming hot springs. I\u2019ve triumphantly summited the Southern Alps, and broken bones biking in the rain forest. This country\u2019s wildness has toughened me for sure, but made me gentler too. I\u2019ve learned to smile more generously and linger longer in an embrace. Because when you live on a small subtropical island, everything hits harder. Whether it\u2019s economic windfall from China or seismic aftershocks, even the smallest breaker affects New Zealand profoundly. It can be vulnerable out here in the South Pacific, so you have to have a strong will and an <a href=\"http:\/\/yoganonymous.com\/love-yourself-this-valentines-day-4-asanas-to-open-your-heart-chakra\/\" target=\"_blank\">open heart<\/a>. I\u2019ve been taught to internalize the polarities of the land: New Zealand is softness and ferocity. It\u2019s isolation and community. It\u2019s sheep and camper vans. It\u2019s all of these at once.<\/p>\n<p>Now when I pass someone on the trail, I look directly into their eyes. I know whoever has made it this far on the East Cape has the same intensity of Kiwi love and wildness inside them as I do.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_52184\" class=\"thumbnail alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52184\" src=\"http:\/\/live-wanderlust-fest.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust__Eric_Ward_Wanderlust_New_Zealand_Days_1_and_2__Instagram_handle_a4gpa________-69-768x435.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Eric Ward\" width=\"768\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust__Eric_Ward_Wanderlust_New_Zealand_Days_1_and_2__Instagram_handle_a4gpa________-69-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust__Eric_Ward_Wanderlust_New_Zealand_Days_1_and_2__Instagram_handle_a4gpa________-69-992x562.jpg 992w, https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Wanderlust__Eric_Ward_Wanderlust_New_Zealand_Days_1_and_2__Instagram_handle_a4gpa________-69.jpg 1404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><div class=\"caption\">Photo by Eric Ward<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cIf you have a passion, New Zealand has everything you need to develop it. As a musician, New Zealand has been the ultimate creative greenhouse. It\u2019s a very young country in terms of human society, but it\u2019s very old land. I\u2019m blown away by the inspiration that this place is providing. It allows you to be whoever you want to be.\u201d \u2013 Arli Liberman, Auckland via Israel<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/live-wanderlust-fest.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sizedEmily-Hill-16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-30577 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/live-wanderlust-fest.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/sizedEmily-Hill-16.jpg\" alt=\"sizedEmily Hill 16\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>Emily Hill is a nomadic health and wellness journalist. In her travels from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Auckland, New Zealand, she\u2019s reported on everything from underground electronic music to nerdy nutrition science. Emily is an avid women\u2019s cycling advocate and amateur yogi. Her favorite food is red wine. Follow her\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/emilybynight\" target=\"_blank\"><em>@EmilybyNight<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I learned about connection\u2014to culture, nature, and each other\u2014when I moved to New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1385,"featured_media":52166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1058],"tags":[342,917,746,1338,312,350,803],"class_list":["post-52153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wander","tag-connection","tag-culture","tag-home","tag-new-zealand","tag-travel-2","tag-wanderlust-festival","tag-wisdom"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.0 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Finding Home in New 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