Hello! Just taking a quick spin around Wellington, I am reminded of houses you might see in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. I really love the style of these houses and I wanted to share a few photos I took just today before dinner. Every house has it's own unique style and color, which I thought was incredibly cool. Driving around didn't get old as it may in other cities with more drab apartment buildings.

I was very lucky to have had the chance to meet with Wellington Mayor Kerry Prendergast yesterday. We sat down and talked about what it was like being a Mayor for a capital city, and how, exactly, she got there!

Hey! I spent the day today learning how to dance as if I'm from the Cook Islands! The Cook Islands are located in between Tahiti, Hawaii, and New Zealand. Like other people of Polynesian decent, there are many Cook Islanders living here in New Zealand. The Maoris are also Polynesian and thus have similar cultural points. One of them, is how they dance.

On my last day in Auckland I took a 4 hour bus to the small and rather sleepy town of Rotorua, birthplace of the Zorb! Pictured below is the Zorb, the circular, double walled device used to roll down mountains with. Besides the amazing fun I had, I learned some practical, real-world math involved with the activity. The webisode will definitely make you want to fly over to Auckland asap...

ANZAC, which stands for "Australia and New Zealand Army Corps" is an organization that unites and memorializes men and women who have fought for either Australia or New Zealand. ANZAC day, which was last week in Australia is one of Austalia's biggest holidays that brings generations of people together, similar to Veteran's Day in the U.S. The whole of Australia, it seemed, shut down and it as though most people were out with family and friends remembering the past in one way or another. The birth of the term "ANZAC" came from one of the most important battles in either country's history...The battle at Gallipoli, which was launched on April 25th, 1915, just after Turkey entered WW1. It wasn't supposed to be the drawn out battle it became, but in the end, it lasted around 10 months and cost Australia just over 8,000 men and New Zealand just over 2,400. And that's just in one battle! In the whole of WW1, NZ sent around 100,000 men to fight, of which, 60,000 became casualties which is pretty high considering that NZ only had a million people in the whole country at the time. This was just 14 years after NZ gained their independence. For both New Zealand and Australia, fighting on the world stage was symbolic of them forming an identity of their own, of showing unity. Helpful links: http://www.anzacday.org.au www.diggerhistory.info http://www.dva.gov.au/commem/commac/studies/anzacsk/aday4.htm