Hi everyone, Please welcome with me  Anne Aw. Anne was born in Taiwan and has spent most of her childhood there before her family moved to New Zealand when she was around 12 years old. She then spent most of her teenage years and early adulthood in New Zealand and finished off her studies. With 24 years Anne decided to go overseas to London, UK, and is living there ever since which has been 8 years now. We are talking about how it felt to move countries as a child and how hard it was to fit...

Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Cayathri Divakalala from Sri Lanka. Caya is an activist researcher with more than 20 years of experience in the social justice realm working on many different topics. Facing many challenges in her life, as a queer person of color, she has been dedicated to bring social changes. In 2021 she co-founded Adhikaar Aotearoa, a charitable trust working with LGBT+ communities of color. You can follow her work on Instagram (see link below) or on their website (also...

Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Chelsea Blackstock. Chelsea is born and raised in New Zealand and is still living in her beautiful home country but loves to travel and spent one year abroad in Canada for her studies. Will the wanderlust take her away one day from the beautiful Aotearoa? We will see. Chelsea and I are going to talk about her experience of being far away from her family for the first time as a student in Montreal. She explains her main differences between Canada and New...

Hi everyone, Please welcome with me David Zhang. David grew up in China and left his country to study in Singapore. He then decided to come to New Zealand in 2011 and stayed here ever since. David is a hard working civil engineer and has build a great life in his new chosen home. In this episode we are talking about his reasons to leave China, his relationship to his family, how he learned to be independent and what his mum has to do with it. Feel free to connect with me on...

Hi everyone, In this episode I will tell you all about my experience of the Cook Islands (Rarotonga). Although, this vacation was a relatively short one, I left with an amazing feeling. It was the perfect place to relax and unwind and we met beautiful people along the way! We have done some awesome activities which you can visit under: Ariki experience- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089924227360 Captain Tamas Lagoon...

Hi everyone, Please Welcome with me Marie Weiss. Marie is currently travelling around the world for 8 months and is collecting new memories, is broadening her mindset and is enjoying her life. We have been in the same high school together and were even in the same year and yet we have not really met each other properly. I am very excited to get to know her more. We both are from a very small town in the north of Germany and now she is here in New Zealand and says "Hello". We will talk about...

Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Sorina Lloyd. Sorina is a very emotional and emphatic power woman who left South Africa five years ago to start a new life with her husband and her three children here in New Zealand. She has worked many years in leadership positions and is currently a team leader in a commercial laboratory. We are going to talk about the safety situation in South Africa and how challenging a work day can be. Sorina is also telling us about the beauty of South Africa and...

Hi everyone, Please welcome with me Nasim Saeidi, also known as Niki who left Iran with her husband to start a new life in New Zealand. We met at work and started becoming close friends. Niki is very compassionate and loving and is always looking for a way to grow. She is telling us a little bit about the current situation in Iran, why they chose to move to New Zealand, why everyone should visit the beautiful country Iran one day and how difficult it was to be so far away from her family...

Hey everyone, Welcome back to todays episode where I am talking about a few differences I have noticed between my home country Germany and New Zealand. It is a short but hopefully informative episode. :) Please feel free to connect with me on Instagram and let me know about the differences of your home country and your country you chose to live in. https://www.instagram.com/hanna_worldwide_and_friends/ Please don't hesitate to ask me any questions you might be interested in. You can also...

Hi everyone, Please welcome with me James Elam from Alaska. He is a teacher for Technology in Cambridge and has a great hobby as a landscape and nature  photographer. One of  his main features is that he wears shorts no matter what temperature it is. If you love photography please check out his page: https://jameselam.com/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1618594124 Feel free to connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hanna_worldwide_and_friends/ Thank you so much...

Hi everyone, I want to introduce Maya Hasegawa, who is born in Brazil and has Japanese roots. Maya has been living in New Zealand with her husband and her three sons for around 5 and a half years. She is currently working in a commercial laboratory as a quality officer but has a lot more skills and interests such as being a producer and host of "Kia ora Brazil" (Free FM 89.0). Maya was one of the nominees for 2019 Best Supporting Actress Award by the Academy of Movies. For the past 40 years,...

Hi there, Welcome to the first episode of hanna_worldwide&friends, the podcast about living abroad. This is a little introduction of myself and a tiny bit about my own story and how it happened that I moved from Germany to live in New Zealand.  Feel free to connect with me: https://www.instagram.com/hanna_worldwide_and_friends/ Love, Hanna