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Down Under is not all that far away

Published on : 3 November 2011 - 9:00pm | By Margo de Haas (Screenshot: RNW)
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Stephany van der Werf accepted an apprenticeship with a real estate broker in New Zealand last year. The 22-year-old Dutch woman enjoyed life so much in New Zealand that she decided to stay.

Stephany misses her friends and family back in the Netherlands, but if she feels really homesick, she's only 24 hours away. As she puts it:  "The world isn't really that big."

Discussion

wang,yijiang 5 November 2011 - 7:39pm / xi'an,china/calgary,canada

i shall not pay flight industry to visit a second foreign country anymore;it's my greed to pursue third home;i shall only travel between china and canada till i turn 60 i will trouble third country. sorry for not troubling anytime soon.

wang,yijiang 6 November 2011 - 6:15pm

there was time in toronto my temper towards canadian english,superficiality,and timidness must be released in a form i chose escape. i brought temper to new zealand christ church airport authority,released 'negative''energy'for hours,eventually was repatriated to toronto on that day. i learned people's mouth and energy can be borrowed for propaganda;i didn't speak for myself in any form because i was certain 'each loss is fifty percent,the other fifty is gain of lesson'. i shall not visit new zealand forever,another country yes,this way i am somewhat good student,i possess this stubbornness.

Anonymous 5 November 2011 - 4:42pm

And where there is no way even if you will, you try to make a way.

Anonymous 4 November 2011 - 6:56pm

where there is a will, there is a way...where there is no will, there is no way..

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