Day 47: Worldview

I have noticed, since arriving in New Zealand, that it's really hard for me to figure out where exactly I am in the world, and how the other continents and countries line up with this one.  It's because for my entire life, I've been used to imagining myself in the United States.  Europe is to the east, Asia is to the west.  Now that I've moved around the world, my entire viewpoint is thrown off!  I find that I struggle to place continents from this new perspective.  For example: I know that Australia is to the west, "over the ditch" as they say, meaning the Tasman Sea.  But it took me a while to work out that if you head east, the first land you run into is South America, Chili to be exact.  So when that earthquake happened a few days ago there, New Zealand had tsunami warnings and I couldn't figure out why for a while.  Anyway, I guess it's just about adjusting my worldview!