Final weekend

Well friends, I am in my final week here at Lindisfarne. The international boys school coalition conference is getting underway here this week. The Americans and I are helping out wherever we are needed here throughout the week. Not the most exciting stuff; however, it should give us a good amount of time to finalize our trip details.

The past week has been fairly eventful here. Thursday we went to a Maroei, an ancestral house of the native Maori. It was a really cool experience. We were told all about the house which represents the Maori father and his offspring. Each offspring is linked to every Maori alive today and is represented by a carving on the wall. It was really neat how the house, which is a huge meeting area, showed the family heritage of the Maori.



Thursday evening we had a concert with some youth orchestra from America. It wasn't the greatest experience, but I won't go into detail.

Friday through Sunday was a three day weekend for us. Saturday we celebrated the 4th of July by going to Alexis' host family's or dinner. We played with sparklers and watched youtube videos of fireworks.

Sunday, John took us to lake Taupo and showed us many of the sights that we missed. We went to the hydro electric dam and watched the spillway open up to fuel the turbines.




That was pretty neat to see this huge gorge fill with water within minutes. After that we went to Huka Falls to look at the waterfall.

That was neat; however, it was raining all day so it kind of put a damper on things. From there we went to watch Bungee jumpers jump into a gorge. It looks pretty cool, I might just have to try it. Then we went to a honey shop and looked at Bee's and sampled a bunch of different honey products. After that we went to look at some steam vents and then headed home.



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P.S. The movie is of the gorge filling with water.