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Week One

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March 7th 2010
First week is done and I feel like I have lived here forever!!!! Everyone has become family and it is incredible to be apart of!!! My abs are continually sore from laughing and screaming. We are beginning to dive more into things and begin more of a schedule, which is so exciting, and so busy! We went on one mini adventure this week to a lake and went on a long hike, which was absolutely breat ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Paraparaumu

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more