Omg sheep! :D
I'm going to the University of Canterbury in New Zealand for my Student Exchange Programme in Feb 2012! 8D I am shocked that I could get a place in, actually, because there was only 1 place available for student in my course. (The news came 1 day after I decided to give up hopes on it, lol.) But omgosh, I'm gonna burst into fizzy bubbles now! X
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I don't think it's weird, seeing as you're met with such stories, I'm just glad to tell you it isn't that bad, well here anyway.
In some countries I do think people think of the meat as the main component... For example in Germany it's much more common to eat huge chunks of meat. Of course there are also German vegetarians to balance it out :D, but they eat a lot more meat than we do, and we're neighbouring countries!
In the traditional Dutch meal there is 1)meat 2)potatoes 3)vegetable of choice. But that's changed so much over the past decades :) People eat food from all over the world now, and I'm sure that's also the case in NZ. And we do it a little differently as well because we don't eat meat. Our usual main components of meals include potatoes, rice (I love rice!), pasta, or specifically spaghetti. My mother (who does the cooking) usually thinks of the vegetables as the main ingredient :D And there are so many things you can do with vegetables, often our meal consists mostly of vegetables. I think the people around me who do eat meat, eat a little less vegetables :D
And I love tofu too! It's seen as a meat substitute here. I don't like the "vegetarian burgers" that are made to look/taste like meat, but we eat tofu quite often. I've never heard the anorexic-food story, but again I don't know about New Zealand :)
I can imagine it'd be safer :) If you're okay with the food they serve! Surely they won't make you eat things you don't like :) I should think it very strange if anyone were to judge you negatively if you wanted to eat less meat!
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Oh yea, now that I remembered, the "stereotypical" Western meal has lots of potatoes and bread too. (We have this phrase in a Chinese dialect that literally meant something like "potato-eater" but actually used to describe someone who isn't a Westerner but behaves like one or speaks only English. LOL!)
Yea, the more I think about it, the more I'm leaning towards the homestay idea. The apartment idea pulls me only because it makes me feel more independent, hahaha!
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