***Official New Zealand Fans Thread***

I was living in Hawaii at the time (looooong story) so it was easy to get to, since all flights from Seattle at that time stopped over in Hawaii anyway. My ex-mother-in-law lives in Wellington and I thought there was no better time to take my 5 month old girl for a visit.. we were so fortunate to be there when they held the Beacons of Hope ceremony- I got to meet that little Australian girl that NZ gave a home to who had esentially been banished for having AIDS. What a dramatic moment.

I don't know when I can come back- I really do need to save some money to be able to do it, but it's definitely on my list- especially since I've got a good friend in Australia who can put me up if I go there- I've never been.
My daughter has gone once again since we were there and is going again in February with her dad- lucky little thing.

It was funny when I was there, because I had lived in Hawaii for a year and things are so slow there (compared to Seattle), so when I got to NZ I felt like everyone was running so fast- in such a big hurry all the time- I was afraid to go outside because I thought we were going to get run over- by the WALKING PEOPLE! It was a whoole different world, but I really was enchanted and feel like it could be my home if only it weren't so difficult to get residency there.

Im a KIwi too! from wanganui in fact, just havent been on the board much lately.

obble wrote:

On a side Kiwi note (inspired by the Winston Peters comment), how do we all feel about the elections? I am a student and I think its great that student loans are getting the interest cut BUT... Labour annoys me. This needed to be done a long time ago, yet it gets brought out only at a time of potential voting crisis. They were talking about doing this at the elections 7 years ago but nothing has manifested until now.

i turn 18 on election day how lucky is that, and although i will probably be of to uni, there no way im voting for labour

Hey Im a big pj fan. Actually helped organise a petition for them not to skip NZ in 2003, got a few thousand signatures but were unsuccessful. Hopefully we dont have to do that next time.....

Scott

i_am_a_wishlist wrote:

Dude you should so do that again. I'll sign it and proabably force everybody I know to. I'm yet to see them live. Damn those Aussies.

We were quiite sucessful in terms of signatures, but not in achieving our goals. I heard it was due to a lack of venues rather than anything else

i_am_a_wishlist wrote:

Lack of venues what a piss poor excuse. I really couldn't care less how many or big the venues were. I just want to see them live.

agreed, but they want a venue with seating, and until the vector arena is finished i cant think of anywhere that would do it.....

Surely Auckland Town Hall would work with all of its seating? Not sure about venues in other cities.

How is everyones friday night going?
i'm just waiting for a mate to pick me up so we can head out on the town. I need to get drunk, its been hell of a week.