For the Māori people native to New Zealand, cultural practices and history of the land is riddled with fantastical myths. According to legend, the Polynesian demigod Maui is credited with the creation...
Atop a hill by the Wellington International Airport sits a sign for the city reminiscent of Hollywood’s iconic landmark, with enormous white block letters spelling out the name of the metropolis in a...
The caves of Waitomo, an extensive network of 80 different caverns located under a small town on New Zealand’s North Island, were first explored in 1887 by a tribal chief of Maori peoples native to the...
I have dreamed of walking through those glass doors since I was a freshman at BU — to see the superstore in all its glory from the inside and gaze across the shelves and shelves of glass bottles advertised...
While I was gearing up for my study abroad experience back in the States, I was told again and again by friends and family what to expect.
“New Zealand is to Australia as Canada is to the United States.”
“Ooh,...
For college students, the word “intern” comes along with a host of connotations. The interns get the coffee. They answer the phone. They are assigned the menial tasks that tenured members of a company...
Before starting my freshman year at Boston University, I had to make the most immense move of my life: leaving a rural college town in the South, smack dab in the middle of the Bible Belt, for a small,...
The people of Christchurch, a renowned city on New Zealand’s South Island, commemorated a somber anniversary Sunday.
Sunday marked the passage of four years since the 2011 Canterbury Earthquake, one...
It was the last place I expected to find solace while I was living in Auckland. But as the waitress approached our table smiling politely and placed the laminated menus before us, I felt relief. American-style...
“Are we in Narnia?” I wondered aloud to myself as I gazed out into the turquoise waters of Cathedral Cove.
“Actually, part of The Chronicles of Narnia was filmed here,” I heard a fellow study...
It took exactly two weeks. I knew from the beginning that it was coming, but when it would strike was a mystery to me considering the euphoric state I had been in since my arrival in New Zealand.
And...
The native Māori people of New Zealand traditionally introduce themselves in their native language of Te Reo by first describing the geographical features of their home environment, such as a mountain...
