New Zealand is indeed a beautiful place and the people I’ve met so far are generally polite and friendly…but being here in more than a week now has been challenging for me. The very reason I feel so is because my body isn’t cooperating with me – have this hyperacidity since I arrived and my back is aching <sigh> and the worst, I feel cold!!! Even if Auckland is warmer than the other regions here, I’m still chilling. For 27 years, I was used to the warm weather in the Philippines – usually around 30 degrees Celsius and above with high humidity…and here, it’s 11-15 degrees Celcius bbrrrrr!!! Omigolly, it’s good that I didn’t decide to apply for a teaching job in Alaska or else I would have packed my bags and go back to the Philippines in no time!
Basically, my life for these past days is just staying at home. I don’t want to go out even if the picturesque beauty of the place is tempting.
Going back to my hyperacidity, I’ve been carefully choosing the food I eat to alleviate my acid reflux but it seems that it is only helping a little. When I googled about it, I suspected something that could have caused this trouble I’m into – and that is, psychological anxiety! I may not be aware of it but the adjustment of getting out from my comfort zone: being in a new place, the need to look for a new job and everything is somehow getting into me – subconsciously perhaps. Even if I consider myself with type AB personality, the type A in me is becoming dominant eh?!
I need to remind myself that “God is always here…just relax!”…hmmmm…I badly need this mantra! Yes, the thought that God put everything in place and brought us here, consoles me that He has plans for us here…Just lead the way Lord and we will follow!
hi mae, nice pic. ana jud sa sugod, lisod mag adjust. if it makes you feel any better, it took me a couple of months to go to the grocery store on my own. Language I didnt understand, transpo system which was completely different from the jeepneys and taxis in cebu, arriving in the dead of winter– all those made me have all the hyperacidity, agoraphobia, hypochondria in the world. but you’ll be fine. like you said, relax. one step, one day at a time. you’ll get adjusted before you know it.
hi, I’m glad to see you here at kiwipinoy….nice pic Mae,
I’ here in Christchurch, I live here almost 1yr and i’m just wondering why not many Filipina here, I miss to be with pinay but can’t find same nationality like me. i wish i can find a filipina friends here….
hello evelyn! thanks for visiting my site. maraming pinoy dito sa auckland. i could imagine konti lang dyan sa christchurch malamig kasi hehe =D