Life Without Pennies

Hey, how’s everybody doing? Long time no blog, we’re sorry about that. We’ll try to be better about it from now on. So, I guess we’ve been living in our apartment for almost two months now. That’s pretty crazy. It’s flown by.

Since our last blog we’ve completely furnished our apartment. It’s great, we love it. It lacks some wall hangings, but we just got a clock so there’s a start.

Summer has come to an end down here and it’s fall now. The weather hasn’t changed much, we’ve had a couple rainy days and it’s getting darker a lot earlier now, but so far so good.

I really like the money system down here. There are no pennies! There isn’t even a 5 cent coin. They have 10, 20, and 50 cent coins. Then 1 and 2 dollar coins, no singles. Then the actual bills start at 5 dollars, everything is the same going up from there I guess. The bills are pretty fancy, very colorful. They feel smooth and clean too. I’m sure they’re not actually cleaner, but they just feel like they are compared to the U.S. paper money.

After two months I think we’re getting into the city’s rhythm. We’ve joined the Wellington Film Society, which screens free movies every Monday, we have favorite restaurants now, and we even have library cards!

The biggest news is that we’ve made a couple friends! Like actual friends, another couple that we go out with and they have even come over a couple times….those kind of friends. Roanna and Julian, they’re great. They are really helping us feel at home down here.

Again, we will be blogging more often now that we’ve settled in and are starting to relax for a change. Hope everyone is doing well, Talk to you later.