Impressions of New Zealand - Part 5 of 5

41. If you live overseas, the quarterly Queen's Alumni review is printed and mailed from Hong Kong.

42. Living with an arm's-length acquaintance leads to many, many discoveries that you really just didn't want to know about.

43. Due to a more appropriate costume idea, I am no longer going to be Grimace for Hallowe'en 2010, so feel free to snap up that idea.

44. Students can save money on heating by spending greater portions of their time in the library. Or sleeping over with random strangers.

45. Hard liquor is very expensive in New Zealand. Wine, however, is not, and is widely available at most grocery stores until midnight. Guess what the grocery store looks like on Saturday at 11:00pm.

46. In Dunedin, you can openly consume liquor on the street. Guess what the streets look like on Saturday at 11:05pm.

47. Naming your house and putting a sign in your window (the Pink Pussy, Robot Face) is a time-honoured tradition at the University of Otago. The Kingston residents who passed the restrictive by-law because of "The Beaver Dam" need to get a sense of humour, then suck it.

48. No matter where you live, you'll look down on the residents of a slightly smaller neighbouring city as savage. In Dunedin, this is Invercargill. It's hilarious because it's like Saskatooners calling people from Moose Jaw white trash. Bitch, you're from the prairies - you're ALL white trash.

49. Like Canada, NZ has the Big 5 banks. But one owns another, and they're all owned by Australian banks.

50. ANZ culture is very macho. They love advertising that has the undertone of "Are you a girly man? Do you want to prove that you're not? Then buy this!"