Hello everyone!
I asked a Danish guy, a swedish girl, a french guy, a norwegian girl, and an austrian guy to count to 10 in their own language. I counted to 10 in spanish and english! It turned into a pretty cool conversation and we shared cultural 'slang' with each other. It was tons of fun!
Before that, we were on a school trip assessing the damage in Christchurch (from their major earth quake months ago). In the next few weeks, we are drawing up a design to re-locate all of the damaged homes... if it's good enough, the council of Christchurch will review it! After the trip, my self and another classmate went to one of our classmates homes... a real kiwi home! It was so much fun to meet his entire family and share our backgrounds. They were so intrigued to hear what we had to say. We enjoyed a glass of their homemade wine (really sweet and tangy) too!
I'm looking forward to Saturday... myself and 25 others will be heading to Kaikoura Park in New Zealand to enjoy cabins, the ocean and snowcapped mountains all in one overnight trip!
Cheers,
MB
P.S. : Ken Smith, an admirable Landscape Architect will be visiting Lincoln University to give a lecture on Monday!!!! If you don't know him, google him and you will understand my excitement. I met him once before at one of his lectures at Columbia University... bought a book from him and got his autograph too!
While you are on google, search Jan Johnsen... she's also an aspiring Landscape Architect! She does better Landscape design work than Ken Smith... trust me! Check out her blog too, www.serenityinthegarden.blogspot.com !
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