We got 3rd!... and move on to the finals which are friday night. I don't have the pictures yet to prove it, which is why I've been holding off on this entry, but they are soon to come, and thought an update might be nice since I'm sure you were all dying to know how it went. ;) I took a video of it...quite hilarious, and quite honestly, I am shocked we did so well. The 2 teams that beat us were professional dancers from Auckland and Tauranga. If by 'professional' you are thinking.....hmmm, probably spinning on theirs heads and doing single handed hops and flips, well then.... you would be correct. And if I may state the obvious, I am not a professional. hah It was quite an interesting Hamilton outing, actually. We waited ... read more

It's been quite a start that began with me as a dirty, homeless, hungry, naive, and distressed United States Citizen, but has upgraded me to the status of a clean, fully fed, slightly more educated, temporary daughter of one of the Universities librarians and her husband, from New Zealand. For those of you who have not gotten the story, my travel and arrival days in short, consisted of: no sleep due to loud 16 year old Americans sitting behind me (that were traveling to Australia to drink, none the less), no entertainment due to having the only broken video machinery on the entire plane, lost luggage on arrival, a lost ride to Hamilton due to Quantas mis-informing them I had not made my flight, discovering less than acceptable living arrangements on arrival to Hamilton, and finding ... read more