ニュージーランド旅行 Trip to New Zealand

神殿の訪問者センター前で　 in front of visitor center of the temple

ニュージーランドでいちばん大きい木、タネマフタ　Tane Mahuta, the biggest tree in NZ

ビーチ　beach

アイスクリーム（１スクープだよ）　ice cream (this is one scoop)

貝を空けてカキを食べてます。Eating oysters out of shells.

ゴールデンウィークを利用して、初ニュージーランド（北島）行ってきました☆今までアメリカ（グアム含む）以外行ったことなかったので、興味深い旅行になりました。前に沼津支部に集っていた姉妹を訪問しに行って来ました。

I went to New Zealand for the first time during Golden Week. It was my first trip abroad other than the US (including Guam), so it was a quite interesting trip. I went to visit a sister who used to be in my branch.

まず11時間の直行便は一人では長かった！ニュージーランド航空は悪くなかったけど。座席も結構広いほう。向こうに着いたら、知り合いの姉妹の車が家に着く前に突然こわれて、道が見えなくなるほど煙がモクモクと車から出てきて、スーツケースなど荷物を残したままみんなで車から逃げました。幸い爆発しなかったけれど、車はそのまま動かなくなり、同じワードの知り合いの人に1時間後くらいに助けに来てもらってやっと家に着きました。次の日から車がなくなってしまったけれど、隣の家の人に車を借りていろいろ出かけることができました。でも３、４日借りっぱなしだった～それってありえないよねぇ。

Fist of all, 11 hour direct flight was way too long to travel alone! Air New Zealand was all right; quite spacy compared to some othe airlines. When I arrived in NZ, the sister's car broke down all the sudden on our way to her home. Smoke started to come out of the car like crazy which kind of blocked off the road.　We got out of the car and ran, leaving my suitcase and stuff. Fortunately the car didn't explode or anything, but it died there. So, we had to wait for someone from the sister's ward to come get us. After waiting for about an hour, we were rescued and finally reached home. The next day, we didn't have a car to take us anywhere, but the sister borrowed her neighbor's car and we were able to go different places. Could you believe she kept the car for 3, 4 days straight? That is not acceptable here in Japan.

ニュージーランドの英語は、アメリカ英語と全然ちがくて、イギリス英語がなまった感じで早口、かつわたしの行ったところ（オークランドより2時間半ほど北のワンガレイというところ）はマオリの人がたくさんいて、マオリ語を混ぜて話すもんだから、英語だかマオリ語だかよく分からなくて、会話に苦労しました。ニュージーランドでしか使わないような言葉を使っていて面白かったです。例えば、heaps、choiceとか、語尾にehと付けたり、ケチャップのことをtomato sauceと言ったり、Eの音をイーと発音してた（例えばtenorをティーナって感じに言ったり、templeがティンポーだったり）。

The English people spoke there was totally different from the one in the US. They spoke British English with a different dialect, and they spoke it so fast. Where I went (Whangarei, 2 1/2 hours north of Auckland), there were so many Maori people, so they mixed Maori in English. I had such a hard time just to have conversations because I could hardly differentiate which language they were speaking. People also used the words the people in the US don't normally use such as "heaps", "choice" etc., and they would add "eh" at the end of the sentences. Oh, and they called ketchup Tomato Sauce. Plus they pronounced E as E, hard to explain in English, but for example, they would pronounce Tenor as Teena, temple as timpo, etc. It was interesting.

一週間だったけれど、いろいろ書きたいことが多すぎて書ききれないので、適当にしたことを箇条書きにしてみます。

I was in NZ for a week, but there are too many things I want to write about, so I just try to list up the things I did and stuff.

• オークランド博物館に行った。I went to Auckland Museum
• カキを貝から自分で開けて食べた。I had Oysters out of shells (I had to open them to eat!)
• タネマフタというニュージーランドでいちばん大きい木を見に行った。I went to see Tane Mahuta, the biggest tree in New Zealand
• 羊よりたくさんの牛がいてびっくり。I was surprised to find so many cows instead of sheep
• フェイジョアという果物のファンになった。I became a fan of Feijoa (fruit)
• キュウイハウスに行ってキュウイ（動物）を見た。夜行性だって知らなかった。I went to the Kiwi House and saw the real Kiwi (didn't know they were nocturnal)
• 物価が高いこと！日本より高いと思った。大きいペットボトルのソーダが3ドルくらいしてた。ガソリンも1リットル1ドル80セント以上してた。Things were super expensive there! I thought they were much more expensive than things in Japan. one big bottle of soda would cost like $3! One liter of gasoline(they called petrol, ha ha) would cost over $1.80.
• ニュージーランドのアイスクリームが有名だって知らなかった。とてもおいしかった。１スクープが大きかったしね。I didn't know that NZ was famous for the ice cream. It was yummy and one scoop was big.
• とても大きな虹をみた。端から端まで見える大きなやつ。I saw a huge rainbow! I could see all the way from one end to the other end!
• ニュージーランドハミルトン神殿に行った。ワンガレイから片道３時間半かかったけど。そこで、沼津支部にいるニュージーランド人の兄弟のお母さんに偶然会った。奇跡奇跡。I went to New Zealand Hamilton Temple. It took us 3 1/2 hours one way. There I miraculously met a Samoan sister whose son is in my home branch in Japan.
• ほかにもいろいろ不思議なことがおこって、神様の存在を身近に感じることができました。There were many miracles happened during the trip. I truly felt my Heavenly Father was watching over me.

もっと言いたいことはあるけれど、ここでおしまい。もうすぐ寝る時間だから。

I have tons more to say, but I will stop here. It's going to be my bed time soon!