Whakarongo mai!

Kia ora, now that I have all of your attention.

Well...things are still good. Life is flying past at break neck speed. I'm hoping it will slow down so I can enjoy it. Enjoy more anyway. The truth is that I wouldn't trade anything to be here now.

Lastnight my Professional Studies class went out to "Lone Star" for dinner. It amazed me for a number of reasons.
1. Isn't there like 4 Lone Stars in Ottawa?
2. The place was packed to the rafters on a Monday night.
3. Plates were on average 25$. That is not a 'student' place by any stretch of the imagination.
4. Who goes to NZ to go to a Texas/Americana bar?

Today was 'Bi-Cultural Day.' It was great. We didn't have class but instead we had a number of lectures on Te Kete o Aoraki (an education curriculum made by the local tribe,) the Treaty of Waitangi (kind of like the constitution of NZ,) and Te Reo and Tikanga (language and customs.) I learned a butt load considering I knew next to nothing before. I know a lot more than most now. Probably more than most Kiwis. Anyway, it was the last lecture of the day and the principal of the school was doing his wrap-up speil and this guy, this idiot, shit-disturbing racist, who sat through all the lectures like the rest of us asks, "Could it be that the Maori are less intelligent than Pakeha?" and quoted racist paper where they found African-Americans less intelligent than honkys. I can say for myself and the rest of the people in the room we just about died. I couldn't believe that anyone could actually think that let alone utter it amongst a room of teachers, principals and soon-to-be teachers. That is something that you keep in your head. Idiot.

Enough for now.

Po Marie.