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"It's been 6 whole months since that I have left your home..." - 'Welcome to Paradise', Green Day

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May 10th 2010
Kia Ora! Well, today is the exact 6 month mark of landing in Aotearoa and what a ride it's been, but now it appears to be winding down. I distinctly remember at Christmas my rather drunken friend Andrew going on some big ramble about life, the universe and everything, but there was one bit that stuck out and moved me. For all his Yankee idiocy he managed to rather profoundly state that "we a ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Wellington

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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