Day 16: Saturday, July 17

Saturday, not much to do but just stay in and cruz with the Māori boyz. So I live on what they call C-Base. The name of our Hall is College Hall and there are several buildings (blocks). So I am in C block. There's base, ground, 2nd and top. Yea that's how they call their floors. Also the buildings on campus all have letters, so there's is like A-Block, thats the School of Māori and Pacific Development, or L-Block, etc. So pretty much the Māori boyz are cool. We also talk about our similarities between Hawaiian and Māori, here and back home and also the way we pronounce things which is a trip. So pretty much the ground floor called "Hui-Mai-Tātou", that's the Māori floor. Lot's of the people here are 18 or 19. Shoots I am 21!!! Makes me feel a little bit old here. Since majority of the 20+ are all in flats (a house that you share with # of people).

1 week down more to go. I really hope that there will be some Māori from the school that would be willing to do an exchange to Mānoa. Been told that it is hard to get students to go out on exchanges because of monies, but they always accept incoming exchanges. Funny because, they accepted 2 from Mānoa, 1 from Hilo and 2 from Linfield college but there wasn't any outgoing.

Pretty much learning everyday, every minute here either in Māori culture, history, language, comparing it to Hawaiian, New Zealand culture and culture back home.