First Few Weeks

It was a whole new experience for me to get out of a country (Iran) that I lived in for 18 years for the first time. I have to say I LOVED IT! :D
The first funny thing was that I wasn't used to the Kiwi accent (well we have so many different accents here) so if somebody wasn't looking into my face while talking to me I wouldn't notice them lol Like when I was on the way to NZ a kiwi guy told me that I had a nice shirt and I thought he was talking to someone else, I noticed he was talking to me when he said it two or three more times lol When I got to the airport the guy who was checking my passport said "How are you?" and I just said "Hi" gosh then 3 seconds later I realized what he has said but it was a bit late to reply him! I felt kinda dumb lol anyway it took me nearly a month to get used to all the accents here :)
The greatest feeling was that I could finally feel the breeze in my hairs! I wasn't forced to wear Hijab. Then I was thinking probably not many people here know how it would feel to wear a scarf, a long sleeve dress and a pants in a hot summer day, phew I'm glad that I don't have to wear scarf anymore and swear at it every time.
When I came to New Zealand I came straight to North shore in Auckland and I was like "where are the humans?!" I should say the population here is much much less than Tehran which is a good thing. I feel life is much more relaxing in Auckland. 
For a few weeks I was feeling that I was living in a bubble, everything was different! When I wanted to cross the street I should have remembered to check the right side and then the left side instead of the left side first and then the right side. As you might have guessed, yes the drivers seat is in the right side of the vehicle unlike Tehran and that makes everything else different. 
As I started having a part time job over here I started learning more about the English language and the foods and everything else. The funny thing is that it happened for me to hear a lot of people saying "sweet as" and well I've never heard about it before back then and the closest meaning that I could relate it to was "sweet ass"! lol I was a waitress in my first part time job and it happened that a lot of people were using sweet as and then I was thinking "whats wrong with the people here?!!!" :)) Then one day I asked some guys who were sitting at a table to explain me the meaning of sweet as and I told them about what I used to think about it before and guess what it means something like "all good" and we all laughed about the whole thing.
The other funny thing that happened was when a couple asked me to give them a paper. I went "Ok, I'll be right back" and I took some white A4 papers with few small pencils for them. Then I noticed that they weren't expecting those at all and they looked quite confused! and that was the time that I found out some people call newspaper "paper" over here.
I'm guessing probably a lot of similar situations happen to people who English is their second language.
Another thing that I found out was that the most favorite game in NZ seems to be Rugby! and for some reason I had never heard about Rugby before in my life! In the first few weeks of my arrival, one of my coworkers was telling me how much he liked rugby and stuff like and he turned up the volume of the radio. Since I was still getting used to the accent I didn't get what he was talking about and the closest thing that my mind related the word "rugby" to was "radio"! lol so I thought he was talking about radio and I didn't say anything. Later on I tried to watch rugby and see whats going on but I gave up, it was hard to understand what was going on lol
When I came to NZ I felt everything was expensive because I was converting the price to the Persian money and it took me few weeks to get used to it hehe and now I feel like saving is a challenge! There are lots of pretty things in the shops especially clothes! and the CHOCOLATES! I should warn you not to have many chocolates if you don't wanna get fat! Its  easy to gain weight when we have so many yummy chocolates around with a lot of good deals! :p 
Another thing that I noticed here was that all the shops close at about 5ish pm! that's pretty early when I was comparing it to Tehran. Over there the shops are open till 11pm or even later and everything else is open.

To Be Continued...