1、Christian高中时作为交换生去到新西兰，听他讲讲对那的感受以及在那生活的经历吧。Todd: OK, Christian, you were just telling me that you lived in New Zealand as an exhange student!Christian: Thats right. In high school, yeah.Todd: What was that like?Christian: I mean, I was 17 years at the time and, you know, I was just leaving home for
2、the first time and going abroad for a year without going home, and it was the first time to actually move out of my family and it was an intimidating experience but at the same time it was extremely enjoyable. I had a great time, traveled around, met a lot of great people, got introduced into Maori
3、culture, and yeah it was fascinating, really fascinating.Todd: What did you like the most about New Zealand?Christian: The country itself, probably the nature and the wildlife. Its just so pure, so green. You got the big mountains, you got the fjords, the rivers. Its all such, its a great eco-system
4、, you can tell that its non polluted. Its just really nice. If you appreciate it, call it nature, you can walk around and soak up the atmosphere. Its really good.Todd: What was the hardest thing about living so far from home?Christian: The fact that I could only communicate to my family through faxe
5、s in the beginning because calling was a bit expensive. The circumstances didnt allow me to use the phone where I was living, so I had to use faxes and that is a bit strange.Todd: Wow, so theres no e-mail or internet?Christian: Well, at the time, e-mail wasnt used that much in New Zealand. There was
6、 one computer in my school that had an interntet connection. And I was allowed to use that because I was an exchange student, the only exchange student at my school. They said, well you can come in and use it every now and then, I used it maybe once a week, because I had never used e-mail before cause this was back in 97, so its eight, like seven or eight years ago, and I guess, in New Zealand they didnt really have that many connections.Todd: Wow, great story.Christian: It was truly great, yeah.
