One of my favourite accounts on BlueSky is George Penney (@georgepenney.bsky.social). She writes these beautiful vignettes of every day life in Aoteoroa. So, instead of an epic travel journal, here's some vignettes of the trip. They're not in chronological order. They also feature interactions
WEIRD: an acronym coined in 2008 to describe a bias in psychology where studies were conducted with participants from "WEIRD" ("Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic") societies and then generalised to the rest of the world. Also weird: a word affectionately used by others to describe
I grew up celebrating rain in all its forms. I have strong memories of standing on our family's porch whenever a Sydney summer storm came through, watching the lightning and rain and listening to the storm crash over head. Feeling delighted and alive. Then, once the storm had passed, we were always