New Zealand Weekly Update #61

12th of December until 24th of December 2023

Approximate reading time: 3 minutes

Lets get it started

Good morning folks and Merry Christmas to all of you! I hope you are sitting together with your family, your friends and you are having heaps of food, a good drink, lots of hugs and laughs. This is the time of the year when people come together and spend time with each other. Appreciate each other. Sharing christmas gifts. And sometimes talk about their year, their achievements, their struggles and upcoming challenges. And sometimes you end up sitting until early morning, drinking, talking, hugging. Special moments with special people – I hope you enjoy it at its best!
Christmas in New Zealand is way different to my experiences back in Germany. Its mostly sunny and warm outside. No christmas music in town (but in our shop from time to time), no real christmas markets, no snow, no mulled wine, no real christmas feelings. It is way different and christmas back in Germany is one of the few parts that I really miss about Germany. This cozy feeling of coming home in the dark at 5PM, the great feeling of coming into the warm house when it is freezing outside. The peaceful silence inside and outside. Snow. I remember one christmas back home when we had no snow the whole december. And I would wake up on the 24th of December and looking outside the window. And it was snowing as! And I was dancing in the living room of my parents flat, jumping up and down and being just so happy and grateful. White Christmas! What a great surprise, what a great christmas time.
Christmas in New Zealand is just different, there is still this feeling of deep gratitude for what has happend this year. For all the challenges, rejections, struggles, ups and downs. And for all the things I could learn out of them. For all the things I know better now, I do better now and for what I have become this year, what has changed and what I have left behind. I suppose I will talk a little more in detail about those things next week in the last blog of 2023. For now, I am just having a coffee, listening to some christmas music and just being grateful and happy that you and I are still here and that we smashed this year. I am proud of both of us!

What else to say?

This weekly update is just a short one. A short reminder that being grateful should not be a matter of season, of day or special event. A short reminder that if you think about someone and that you miss them or something about them made you smile – tell em! Being grateful should be part of our mindset each and every day. Telling people that we love them should be part ouf our lifestyle each and every day. And waking up the next day is already a great achievement and something, we can and should be grateful for. It is another chance, another challenge, another day for unique moments and experiences.
Merry Christmas to all of you guye, I am grateful and very happy having you all in my life. May you, your family and friends have a special and peaceful time together!

Your DingyInternational
Felix