Wellington

Adventure Begins

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December 27th 2006
Happy New Year everyone, hope you all had a good time and there weren’t too many sore heads the next day. Before our BIG ADVENTURE began, we taped a load of CD’s because the radio is useless and Aunty Tina’s CD player in the car doesn’t work. They wouldn’t let me tape my dance music and only just let me tape Michael Jackson. But we had Westlife, Dirty Dancing, Tom Jones, Queen, Beatle ... read more

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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