<p>My daughter is spending her junior semester abroad in New Zealand. Her birthday is is in March and we’d like to send her a prepaid visa or master card so she can get herself something special. Does anyone have experience in how to do this? Thank you.</p>
<p>Probably the best way to do it would be to find a supplier in NZ and have them ship a gift direct to your daughter if you just want to send something moderately generic like a book. </p>
<p>However, I would say that probably the thing that she would welcome most is a bit of home - I know shipping wouldn’t be cheap, but if you could send her some of her favourite food that’s otherwise unavailable in NZ (for me it was my favourite brand of teabags + proper marmite) with maybe a couple of family pictures and a handwritten letter too I think that would go down very well. </p>
<p>You might check for the NZ version of eBay or Amazon, the price can be bette than buying and shipping your own. In Europe I have ordered American food and sent it for not too horrid a price.</p>
<p>We sent a packet of brownie mix (with instructions translated to metric), and a very small jar of peanut butter. We also used Amazon.uk to send her a couple of books (she was in remote mountain area in Europe). It might depend on what she was particularly missing. (The brownies were a huge, huge hit with her host family. Apparently tha smell of baking brownies transcends cultures.)</p>
<p>My D is in South Africa this semester and will turn 21 while she’s there. I know this wasn’t the question but I stowed a birthday card at the bottom of her suitcase with a note to not open til her birthday and DH and I agreed we would tell her to take her friends out for a birthday dinner on us when the time comes – she has one of my credit cards for emergencies.</p>
<p>Thanks for your replies. We did give her a “party” and a camera before she left. Someone suggested to me to send an amazon ecard for downloading music or videos. Need to check into gthat. Unfortunately, you can’t send food to NZ. And as far as a touch of home, before she left she said she was glad she was going to be so far away from home, LOL! Think shes trying to establish her independence.</p>