What cultural elements called your attention? What is similar to and what is different from our Chilean culture?               

The New Zealanders, or Kiwis as they like to call themselves, are really obsessed with Rugby. Much the same as Football in our country, possibly even more so, Rugby is everywhere; the players appear on TV, in advertisments, they do interviews on the radio, on chat shows, the players are idolized. All everybody talks about is Rugby, they are obsessed.

Something i found quite suprising was everybody´s trust in other people. In our country you couldnt walk around with anything valuable visible unless you wanted them to get stolen, or raxed as some people call it here. In New Zealand you can quite happily, and without any worries walk around alone and very late at night with valuables, you can even leave windows to your house open with out worries of anything getting stolen.

In New Zealand everybody is quite open to talking to strangers, in Chile you can not walk up to somebody on the street that you didnt know and have a conversation, especially if you are alone. I was quite surprised when in a mall a stranger started up a harmless conversation with me. Everybody seems nice.

New Zealand and Chile have many similarities and differences. It was interesting being able to experience a new culture that was so different to the one we have in Chile.