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Where We Went
Each Day |
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April 1:
arrived in Fiji, took a bus to our resort, walked down to Mama's Pizza for
dinner |
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April 2:
stayed at the resort all day, went to Hard Rock Cafe for dinner |
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April 3:
arrived in New Zealand, took a bus from Auckland to our hotel in Rotorura,
stopped briefly at the Hobbiton |
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April 4:
duck tour on the lakes around Rotorura, very small thrill ride park,
attended a sheep show, rode up the skyline gondola, visited a jade store,
and ate dinner Maori style in our hotel |
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April 5:
took a bus from Rotorura to Auckland, visited the Waitomo caves (glow worms)
on the way, ran around the city of Auckland for 20 minutes |
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April 6:
arrived in Sydney, went to the Sydney tower, walked around Hyde park
briefly, ran to the Opera House |
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April 7:
bus ride to Bondi Bay, Mrs. MacQuarie's chair, the Opera House, an opal
museum, Darling Harbour, took a harbour cruise, and went to a zoo |
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April 8:
walked to the food court, bought souvenirs at the mall and attempted to find
the Haymarket, ate dinner at Hungry Jack's |
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April 9:
went back to the Haymarket, played frisbee in Hyde Park, and walked around a
few malls |
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April 10:
went to the Featherdale Zoo, arrived in Honolulu, took a bus to Pearl
Harbor, visited the beach in Waikiki |
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April 11:
took a bus to more secluded beach than the public shore, went to the mall
and the apple store, ate dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings |
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Something We
Learned About A Place |
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April 1:
Fiji is made up of more than 330 islands |
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April 2:
the British own the territory of Fiji |
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April 3:
New Zealand is divided into two islands: the North Island and the South
Island |
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April 4:
Auckland is the most populated city in all of New Zealand |
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April 5:
Waitomo Caves was discovered in 1887 by two explorers on a raft |
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April 6:
Australia is divided into seven states: New South Whales, Victoria,
Queensland, Northern Territory, Tasmania, Western Australia, and South
Australia |
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April 7:
Bondi Beach was the host of all beach volleyball games in the 2000 Olympic
Games |
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April 8:
the Haymarket is a place in Sydney that sells common tourist souvenirs at
very affordable prices |
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April 9:
Hyde Park is home to many seagulls and the Australian white ibis, neither of
which are the least bit afraid of humans |
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April 10:
Japan originally had no plans to attack Pearl Harbor until the United States
cut off oil supply because they did not support Japan's war with China |
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April 11:
California does not have Buffalo Wild Wings yet Hawaii does |
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An Exchange With
A Native |
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April 1:
greeted many Fijians with "Bula" which is a very popular word meaning hello,
goodbye, and many other polite words |
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April 2:
ordered food from a waitress at Hard Rock Cafe (her dialect was hard to
understand) |
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April 3:
talked a little with our bus driver, Bill |
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April 4:
asked the Maori guide a few questions about his village Te
Whakarewarewatanga O Te Ope Taua A Wahiao |
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April 5:
talked with the Waikiki Cave tour guide about the glow worms |
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April 6:
talked to our bus driver for Sydney, Gary |
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April 7:
asked the workers at the opal museum about the jewelry |
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April 8:
asked the Adidas store workers in Sydney about their merchandise |
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April 9:
exchanged money at the currency shop |
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April 10:
listened to an old Pearl Harbor veteran talk about the attack |
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April 11:
gave the rest of my Buffalo Wild Wings dinner to a homeless lady on the
street |
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Something We
Learned About the People Here |
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April 1:
50% of the people in Fiji are natives; the rest are divided between
Europeans, Indians, and the Chinese |
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April 2:
Fijians love the game of rugby and have a very talented national team called
Digicel |
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April 3:
50% of the people in New Zealand are of European descent |
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April 4:
Rotorura was named by the native Maori along with many other towns and
villages that make up a large portion of New Zealand today |
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April 5:
AC/DC is originally from Australia |
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April 6:
there are about 6.3 million people in the state of New South Whales |
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April 7:
James Cook was the first European to discover the large landmass of what is
now Australia, but the Aboriginals been present for over 4,000 years |
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April 8:
Sydney is very accepting to people of different ethnicity, age, gender, and
orientation |
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April 9:
the people of Australia play two major forms of rugby; one is the Australian
Rugby League which is more common, the other is called Australian Football
League which is played by Aussie rules |
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April 10:
defined literally, "Aloha" means face-to-face |
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April 11:
1 million people live on the island of Oahu, and about three-fifths of those
people live in Honolulu alone |
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Something I
Learned About Myself |
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April 1:
I love flying, but I hate how long the flights were |
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April 2:
two of my new favorite activities are rugby and photography |
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April 3:
someday I want to go back to New Zealand and run through the rolling hills |
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April 4:
I like going out on lakes but not going in the water |
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April 5:
I have gotten rid of my claustrophobia and walking through the caves was fun |
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April 6:
Sydney would be a great place for me to live someday; I would never get
bored or lonely |
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April 7:
conserving money is a talent of mine, yet I need to learn to relax and spend
a little more sometimes |
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April 8:
I can make new friends quite easily when one-on-one; when talking in groups
I become shy |
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April 9:
I could live on vegan food if I was motivated enough to research which vegan
foods I like |
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April 10:
nothing lasts forever, so I need to take chances when I have them and not
care what others tell me; I am smart enough to make my own decisions and be
responsible |
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April 11:
I realized that I became very attached to the people I met from Fresno and
am going to miss them after this trip ends |
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