The "first times"

I'm seeing a lot of new things around here.
Today I woke up very early in the morning. It was 6:30am and I couldn't sleep anymore. Around 7:30am I heard some noise in the kitchen, then I knew someone was up, so I brushed my teeth and Lisa (my host mother) asked me if I wanted something to eat.
In the breakfast I had my first "first time" on the day. It was the first time I was eating a toaster with peanut butter and some very good tea. When I asked Lisa what kind of tea that was, she told me they drink the tea mixed with milk, and that's what made it taste so good. The tea was actually my second "first time" thing here! :P I tried another thing, something I could pass on my toaster, it's something with a spice taste, something called 'marmite'. Lisa told me that this 'marmite' is a very New Zealand thing (kind of typical). It's really hot, I didn't like it so much.
After breakfast I took a walk ... yes, a long walk around the neighborhood. I stop by a payphone to call home. I think my father was not so happy to receive my call, once it was a collect call! Anyway, my mother loved to hear some words from me! :P
The weather was varying from cloudy to rainy, with soft raindrops from the sky! After that I had lunch with the whole 'host family' and latter on Darrel and I started talking while we were watching TV. Darrel is Lisa's mate, a guy who lives in the house and works as a truck driver at night, so it's hard to see him during the week. After awhile we went to the shopping mall to exchange my money. The mall was very crowded, many people were buying presents for Christmas. I could see lots of Indians and Asians (Japanese, Chinese and some other sort of small eyes people). Another thing I had to do was to buy an electricity adaptor to connect the laptop and the camera to the New Zealand electricity system, to reload their batteries. It was hard to find an adaptor, but after visiting 3 stores, we could find what I was looking for! Are you asking me why? Here in New Zealand every electronic device is plugged into electricity by an adaptor that seems to Brazilian’s air conditioner plug.
In the middle of the afternoon Darrel asked me if I liked milk-shakes (with his accent I had to ask him to repeat the 'milk-shake' word three times until I understand it) and I told him YES! We went to KFC (something like Kentucky Fried Chicken) and then he took me to know a little bit of the city. Damn, I didn't took my camera with me, because I could not imagine he would go that far. Another "first time" experiences! At first, he took me to a volcano, in a very high hill, where I could see for the first time downtown and the sky tower. After taht, we went downtown, passing through Mission Bay (amazing place), the harbor (giant) and downtown itself. The traffic is so organized compared to any other I know.
Well, it was pretty much what I did on my third day here in Auckland. I guess there's a lot of good stuff still to come.