"We’ll Sort You Out!” per ‘NZ Speak’

“It’s good to keep things sorted.” Or a friend who got a dinner from me said, “Thanks for the entre, now one meal is sorted.”

In New Zealand it’s important to be sorted.  That is all ducks in a row, all things taken care of.  So it’s all sorted out, but sorted is just fine as well.

This makes me smile.  Sort is our word of choice when listening to NZ speak.  We were discussing over dinner last night that we are understanding more and interpreting better, but the ‘colloquialisms’ are interesting to us. Kind of like the US Midwest, “Yous guys” or “You betcha!”  Or the Southern "Bold potatoes".

Received a very nice birthday gift from my brother, an Asian year of the horse small metal statue from Thailand.  I’d been looking for one and haven’t been able to find any here  I thought that, as in most countries, the Asian communities have small shops with kitschy items to represent their culture at a small price.  But the only celebratory horses I could find were in the Buddhist Temple gift shop.  These were priced from $100. and I don’t value them that much!  Gold paint on plastic is not my thing. A young Chinese woman from the mainland, a local shop keeper, said that the Chinese don’t pay attention to the ‘superstitions’ about animal years.  I’m wondering if this is true and if the ’49 revolution so changed the mainland’s culture as to diminish these practices.  More questions, more time to ponder, more people to ask,  so happy to be here.  J