- Hi guys, my name is Shayla and I make these videos every--
- [Seth] Every Wednesday.
- Mm hmm, I do.
- [Seth] Every Wednesday, well it's Tuesday so.
- It's actually, Tuesday.
- [Seth] So you make the video every Wednesday.
- Shh, we got a peanut gallery this morning.
(laughing)
Hi guys my name is Shayla and I make these videos
every Wednesday.
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I have been traveling full time since 2015
and this Wednesday we're in New Zealand.
We are flying home today.
I want to go over some of the things
that were a little bit strange about New Zealand.
Not strange just unfamiliar to me.
I've got 10 things.
The first thing, and one of the main reasons
why we're here is that there are no natural predators.
You've seen my bear videos you know that I'm
so afraid of bears.
I originally thought I was going to go to Australia
for a year, do a work visa,
there are a lot of people on work visas,
if you are under 30 apply for it.
Seth was like I think it would be cool
to go hike in New Zealand.
There are no bears.
There are no mountain lions.
There's nothing that can get you.
Any time I had to walk out of the van
or walk around at night I wasn't afraid
of animals or people
because the crime rate here is so low.
Second thing that we noticed is
that people don't wear shoes in public, public.
People don't wear public shoes in public places.
- [Seth] Who wears public shoes?
What is a public shoe? (laughing)
Nobody wears.
Get your public shoes on we're going in public.
- Stop.
People don't wear shoes in public places.
The grocery store, the gas station,
nobody's wearing shoes which I kind of love.
I wish I had taken advantage of it as much as Seth had.
(soft music)
Seth is like the military guy.
(robotic movements and noises)
He was walking around with no shoes on
I was like oh, okay.
He was embracing it fully.
I wish I had.
Third thing which you learned about
in the beginning of our trip was that
that wifi is not a thing.
You don't just go sit in a cafe like you do
in the States st Starbucks for 12 hours.
They give you a limit usually.
So you'd sit down, you order your breakfast,
your coffee, and you log on, and it'd be like
you have 30 minutes.
I'm like I have like 12 hours of work to do.
What we found was that libraries were the best place
to go for wifi.
If you come here CamperMate the app is your best friend.
You must download it.
We used it to find gas, campsites, and wifi.
Number four, new phrases that we
will be taking home with us.
Proper.
Like oh, we should have a proper meal tonight.
Or, it's so nice to sleep in a proper bed.
The other one is heaps.
Like, ah we got heaps of sleep last night.
Or there's heaps of sandflies here.
Sandflies are another number.
Give me a minute on that.
The third word is sweet as.
Seth also is trying to take this on.
Sweet as just means like thanks or cool.
So we asked a few Kiwis if they could say it for us.
- Sweet as (laughing)
- Sweet as bro.
- I've lost my voice.
Sweet as bro.
(laughing)
- Sweet as bro.
Sweet as bro?
Sweet as bro.
- Sweet as bro.
- [Group] Sweet as bro.
- Thank you everybody who did that.
That was amazing.
There will be more at the end.
Number five are sandflies.
We have sandflies in the States.
They definitely have sandflies here.
They're not, they're like smaller than mosquitoes
but more vicious.
They hurt when they bite and then they itch forever.
I asked somebody how do you not get bit by sandflies
like what's the secret to not getting bit.
And he's like you're doing it.
Cover up, cover up those ankles.
And I was literally covered from head to toe.
Because I was just afraid of being bit.
When the sun's rising and when the sun's setting
that's when they're the worst.
But that is what it is and I was like.
The sixth thing is that there is a switch for the outlet.
So when you go to plug something in,
you have to turn the outlet on.
Apparently they have a higher voltage here
so it's more dangerous if you get zapped with it.
So it wants to be off if it's not in use.
Their outlets have light switch things to on the power.
This morning Seth woke up without a phone charge
because he didn't do the switch.
(clicking)
A couple things that we noticed that were different
in the southern hemisphere, number seven,
we could not see if the water was going a different way
because the toilets flush down.
Like there's no swirl.
It's just down.
Further south we went the colder it got.
And this makes sense if you think about it.
We are always just used to going north for cold
and south for warm.
Well we've past the equator now, we're on the bottom,
so the further south we go the further we get to Antarctica.
We started with a comforter.
We were like we don't need this comforter, we're sweating.
And then when we got to the south island
we had to go buy one because we were freezing at night.
The other thing that's different here are the stars.
There are millions of stars.
So many stars.
And there's no Big Dipper.
There's no Orion's Belt.
So that was weird just to have an unfamiliar sky at night.
It was kind of cool but it was different.
The eighth thing there are no Targets here.
Ah, there might be a Target.
I think I saw a Target one time.
But there's something called The Warehouse.
And at first glance had like the red colors
and similar-ish enough logos like yeah,
this is probably like Target.
Seth does not like The Warehouse.
Customer service for me, huge thing
because I've worked in customer service
my whole life.
So Seth is always like oh, you're such a stickler
for customer service.
Well, we separate in Warehouse.
He's trying to buy a Bluetooth speaker.
We come back and he's like
we got to get out of here.
And I was like why?
I have asked three people to help me
unlock this thing so that I can buy this Bluetooth speaker
from their store and nobody has come by with the key.
When I asked the third person and no one came by
I was like I'm over this.
And from then on he's like we're never going
to The Warehouse.
I thought it was great.
The deals were awesome.
Number nine, driving.
Of course you're driving on the wrong side of the road.
Should I say Seth was driving on the wrong side of the road.
I think I drove two times in two months.
Seth said he likes to drive I just don't believe him.
I think he just didn't have any faith in me.
So Seth's the driver, I'm the organizer.
I make sure that things don't fall,
that things don't go flying when we move.
I also get carsick a lot.
So sometimes when I'm on my phone too much
or when I'm like digging around trying to organize stuff
I get a little carsick.
Never like vomity but definitely queasy.
Peppermint gum is helpful.
The 10th thing, is paying for things.
When we paid with our U.S. credit card.
It always required a signature, always.
Even the store owners would be like
that's weird I need your signature.
Here, payWave is like a thing where you
just tap your card on there and it pays for it.
I think we have that in the States
but it's not used as far as I've seen.
Here it is the norm. People are like you don't have payWave?
And you're like I've got a chip.
I feel like that's the new thing's the chip to put in there.
And there's no tipping
on restaurants, on eyebrow waxing,
on haircuts. Did you tip when you got a haircut?
- [Seth] She told me not to.
- She told you not to?
The last thing that I want to close
with is if you're coming here
and you want to rent a van,
I'm going to include the guys email
that we rented our van from
because he was amazing and he told me
I could share it.
I would highly recommend him.
I'll put it below.
Those are my 10 things.
Next Wednesday I will be in California.
Seth is flying back to Minnesota
to take care of some school stuff
and stuff stuff to stuff.
And then I will be in Colorado at the end of the month
at 5point Film Fest with Gregory Pecks.
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And I will see you guys all next week. (kissing)
Bye. - [Both] Hi Shayla and Seth
- Hope you enjoyed your time in New Zealand.
- Got some sausies if you want to come over for a barbie?
- Yeah, nah that'd be great.
- Sweet as bro.
- [Group] Sweet as bro.
- Sweet as bro.
At the beach, got my sunnies, got my jandals.
(laughing)