Bryce Jones
Student in Athens, Georgia
I visited one of the best countries on Earth. I have not been to Japan yet, so this one is my number one for sure. It is certainly the safest country. I would say their crime is basically at zero. There are probably the off-hand candy thieves. It is nicknamed the ‘Island of the Long White Cloud’ by the natives who first inhabited the land nine hundred years before. Of course the country I am talking about is New Zealand. Anyone could have guessed that. I visited New Zealand in June and now I am infatuated with rugby. The game seems to embody the aura of the country; free flowing and thinking. I now practice the Haka (the warrior dance of the Maori people) in the mirror every chance I get. It looks absolutely ridiculous and my facial animations would put Jack Nicholson’s joker to shame. My trip to New Zealand is a hard thing to try to explain. So much happened that truthfully I don’t even remember what most of what happened. I rolled down a hill in a giant hamster ball. I rode a duck through three sulfur lakes. It was not a real duck for any PETA members who may be reading this. I almost fell into a volcano; it was an inactive volcano, but a volcano none the less. The entire experience was life changing and I really want to go back. Maybe in another bio I will blabber on about Australia. That was an amazing country too!