Although I usually work out of our Chicago office, I’ve had the pleasure of basing myself out of our New Zealand headquarters (the HomeZone©) in Christchurch for the last month, enjoying a Southern Hemisphere summer.

It’s been great spending time with the creative team developing new branding campaigns for TimeZoneOne and our clients, noshing on sausage rolls and downing endless cups of tea with one and all.

I’ve caught up on the local gossip, endured christenings and first birthday parties and no doubt run up numerous traffic convictions trying to avoid the newly dedicated bus lanes that seem to pop up from no where on my daily commute out to the countryside.

As I tap away on my keyboard admiring my newly tanned hands, and look out on a hot Canterbury day it’s difficult to picture Chicago and Denver two feet deep in snow and the team there wrapped up in their winter woollies.

It’s with mixed emotions that I head back to the good ‘ol US of A on Friday.  I’m sad to be leaving what for me will always be home, but also looking forward to be being back in the land of opportunity and kicking ass on all TimeZoneOne’s new ventures for 2010.

Raewyn Topp – A kiwi girl at heart with American sized ambition.

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