hey! A morning entry, would you believe it. I am, unsurprisingly, sort of waiting for a bus. Yesterday night I went to the Maori Arts 'n' Craft centre where we had a guided tour round natural phenomena like geysers, hot mud splashy things (98 degrees centigrade at top) and plants, and indeed real life Kiwis (the birds). These geysers are apparently real and uninterfered with, unlike some rival geyser that goes off at 10:30 every day apparently, even when daylight savings time is on. Magic, no? Even so, they spurted magnificently. Also saw them doing actual arts and crafts, weaving, carving and the like. Follow that with Maori welcome/challenge/dance 'n' sing type cultural event. And then Maori FEAST. This consisted of an all-you-can eat buffet cooked by traditional means, which even though it had a fish
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