WAITOMO-WEEKEND

August 16
It was cloudy. My host mother took me to UNITEC in her car. I said " Thank you for taking me here." and " See you, Linda and Richy."

We departed at UNITEC by bus.

First, we arrived at Waitomo. We toured the CAVES and we were going to travel by boat through the underground glow worm grotto. We couldn't ride on the boat was owing to the rain. So, the river went up. It was dangerous. We saw many Glow Worm Grotto. They were so beautiful.

Second, We had for lunch in the beautiful gardens at Roselands. Today's lunch was BBQ. I had curry and rice, steak and salad. I was so full. I went and saw some sheep and lambs in a farm with Ecchan after lunch. The Sheep and lamb were so cute and lovely.

We left Roselands for Rotorua at 2:00

Third, We checked into the Regal Geyserland Hotel and I went shopping at shopping mall with Shuhei, Ayaka and Junki. We bought and had famous ices in New Zealand on the way. It was HOKEY POKEY! "Do you know Hokey Pokey?" It was so delicious. The ice was in some so small caramel. It took 30 minutes to walk from HOTEL to SHOPPING MALL. We bought some many snacks and drinks and foods.
When we went back HOTEL, it began to rain. We had only two umbrellas then. Incidentally, we found FREE BUS. We rode on the bus quickly. We tipped the driver about 10 dollars.

Fourth, we visited Marae by bus. We experienced a concert of Maori Song, Haka, Poi Dancing and watched our dinner emerge from the ground and had a HANGI!!! The HANGI was not delicious. I had a valuable experience. Maori was GREAT!!! I thought I want to learn Haka and Poi dancing.

Fifth, we transfer back to HOTEL by bus. The driver was so funny. When we got off bus, we had to greet the driver by nose.
I shared a room with Junki and Shuhei. I took a shower for long time. I watched Beijing Olympic Games on TV. In New Zealand, we almost watched HORSE and CANOE on TV. They were not interesting to us . We wanted watched Japanese Games!! I had some snacks, drank with my friends. I played card game with my friends. We sat up late. We laughed so hard that night.

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