English speaking or reading people: here we are! (1)

(oftewel een poging); I am going to  try to do it! (complicated, isn't it?) otherwise: I'm trying to do that....

How are you today? with these words begins usually the day in New-Zealand! They also do expect you to answer back met the same question! It's also a call in shops, do they not want the client to buy something, asking them first how they (today) are feeling and continuing a little chat about us? Amazing!
New- Zealanders are very gentle people, also open and seem to be interested in where tourists come from, what they about their country think and so on. I'm very stonished (?) about that,because of the huge quantity of tourists or people from overseas there, they seem also to keep interested in them.

Maori people are proud of being Maori's, New-Zealanders of their origine from Ireland or Scotland, but for all of them the most important thing is that they are New-Zealanders at all.

We saw a lot of Maori's (in the Maori language it doesn't have a plural), most of them in cities, only we din't have the opportunity to have but an superficially talk with them. We do talk with Charlotte Taranaki (James is a very quiet person, doesn't talk too much). James guided us in the workshop helping us with bonecarving. He is a very talented teacher and artist, Charlotte cared about the conversation and the food. We got a very tasty meal indeed with zelfbaken toast within zelfmade fishsalade and parsley, 3 kinds of fish (shark too) in boter with omelet whrapped, fresh vegetable, a zelfmade mayonaise with mosterseeds: delicious!