SNAP KRAKLE POP

I start this new job tomorrow..hopefully all goes well!
I have a few facial piercings (nothing freaky - a lip stud, and a couple small nose fun ones), but they mentioned possibly wanting me to take them out. Problem here is, that every job I've ever had has been fine with my extra bling and I've always had a stance that I won't change who I am for a job. I'm working in the arts industry afterall - it's not like i'm trying to assimilate into a corporate job at a bank, but at a photography studio.

So here's hoping that New Zealand continues to be kind to me!

On the other hand .. no matter how many times I've moved countries, I can't help but feel on the outside at times. Even though I'm in a country where the language is the same (aside from a fun accent!), it's still another country, still another culture. It's funny; if I was going to France, not only others, but I myself would also expect for there to be some settling pains. For some reason or another though, when it's another English speaking country, we assume that it will be a bit of a smooth transition with no real friction from slotting in. Country after country, I have steadily been proven wrong in that. Sometimes it's even easier in a culture that speaks another language, because your language skills are so limited that you are intrigued and challenged constantly; meeting people of such different experiences and laughing through the language struggles but finding joy in the simple gestures and non-lingual ways of communication.

I know I can't rush the whole fitting in thing ... or that I ever WILL fit in. But what I can do is make friends, make mistakes, and hopefully everything will turn out great in the end. Fingers crossed.