3. Meeting people for the first time in NZ

07/17/19 • 18 min

Conversation points:

How to greet in Maori culture (1:16)
- Hongi (2:00) pressing noses together in Maori culture
- How Nicki greets people (2:53)
- Hugging between friends (3:48)
- The first time that Nicki and Rangima met (5:33)
- First impressions
- `intuition` (8:28)
- When you meet your homestay family (10:13)
- When you meet your boss (10:52)
- Eye contact (13:03)

Conversation points:

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2. K-pop dreaming + Flatting in NZ

Nicki talks about her strange K-pop dream and then we talk about `flatting` in New Zealand and what you should do to find a flat.

Conversation points:
-`Flat` a house that people share and live in together.
-`Couch potato` lazy person who lives on the couch and doesn`t exercise.

www.trademe.co.nz/flatmates-wanted

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4. Our biggest mistakes

Nicki talks about her biggest mistake at work and Rangima talks about an embarrassing thing she did when she was a child.

Conversation points:

dairy farm (2:11)
- milk the cows (3:09) take the cows to the milking shed and take milk from the cows by machine.
- gutted (9:05) Kiwi slang for feeling really upset, sad, disappointed. E.g "My boss was gutted = My boss was so upset."
- Rangima`s mistake (10:10)
- consequences (14:10)
- "It`s no use crying over spilt milk" (2:10)