Most of our readers will be used to growing up in Aotearoa, and it may seem normal for us but once you go overseas, our childhood differences to the rest of the world will start to show.
Here are 10 Things Only Kiwis Would Understand
- It’s normal to have pet sheep, pigs or calves
9 out of 10 people I have spoken to have had some sort of farm animal as a pet as a kid, either it being a sheep, pig, cow or perhaps even all.
It’s also common to eat them, RIP Rangi (my pet lamb I had when I was 4)
- Walking around barefoot
Especially during summer, it is some of the most appropriate footwear possible, It’s almost weird if you are wearing actual shoes during summer.
- Often got drunk in random paddocks
It’s a right of passage for many Kiwis, have you really lived if you haven’t been on the verge of passing out in some random paddock?
- Our speech is sprinkled with Te Reo Maori
Even if you don’t speak Te Reo fluently it is very common to sprinkle in some common phrases and words.
- Never in a rush
Us Kiwis are chill people, if there’s no need to go fast why rush it, just lax it I reckon.
- Foreigners have a hard time understanding how we speak
With our weird accents and vocab, no wonder foreigners can’t understand a thing we say.
- BBQ at Christmas
It’s a Christmas tradition to have sausages, steak, pork and every other meat thrown on the BBQ. If you don’t it’s kind of odd.
- It’s normal to make a sandwich out of anything
Noodle sandwiches, Meat sandwiches, Pie sandwiches, whatever you can think of, it’s been put in a sandwich before.
- We’d rather fix something ourselves than call someone
Like the slogan says “DIY its in our DNA”
- We love a raffle
I don’t even care what sort of raffle it is, we all love one of these.
