So it's been a while! Since the last time I wrote (which feels as though it was so long), i did a Waka tour where Michelle, Stina, Elizabeth, Dave, Emma, Francis, Alicia and I ate cooked mussels and oysters with wine, cheese and crackers and chocolate tim tams (chocolate penguins bars). The waka is a traditional Maori canoe, the one we were on was a model of the ones that were used to cross the islands (possibly from Tahiti) to New Zealand. The next day I went skydiving, I was pretty much completely calm and jumped from 12,000 feet. It was amazing and I definitely want to do it again some day. After skydving we returned to Paihia and after lunch we went back to Auckland, said goodbye to Emma, Stina and Elizabeth, and gained 10
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