They don't really celebrate Halloween in New Zealand. Well, only in the last 6 years, which means that we still have to explain why people dress up or decorate houses and window displays. Most people also think that costumes have to be scary or you have to dress up like a pumpkin. Shaun and I are dressing up as cowgirls- hats, guns, and boots. It's pretty American of us and we think it will go over pretty well.
Our only job while staying at the No.8 Wired Hotel in Timaru is to throw a Halloween party. We're bringing "true American culture" to New Zealand. So if Ping wants a Halloween party, he's going to get a pretty awesome Halloween party.
This week we've been planning music playlists, drink specials, costumes, costume contests, fliers, and networking our butts off with everyone we've met (or haven't met) in Timaru. We're determined to make this party huge. He picked the right girls for this job because this is pretty much everything we ever did in the sorority. And working for Fox in their event department doesn't hurt either.
Today we suited up in some bright orange overalls and fliered around Timaru. Coupled with the fact that everyone stares at us already (because Timaru doesn't have girls, much less girls our age, we're American, and we were wearing bright orange overalls), I think we generated some good buzz about our event.
Yesterday we visited the Moeraki boulders. These are spherical rocks that are randomly on the Eastern coast of NZ. They look like eggs that dropped down from an alien spaceship. They're pretty strange looking. I"m not sure how to describe them any other way. Here are pictures so you can see for yourself:
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