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Posted on Oct 22, 2017Nov 9, 2017

Everything’s so out of wack

by Rowan When we arrived in New Zealand, the first thing I thought was “where are the chickens?” Then I remembered that New Zealand cities didn’t have chickens wandering around everywhere. It was actually quite a shock coming to New Zealand since it was so different from the Cook Islands. I had to keep reminding …

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Posted on Oct 16, 2017Dec 7, 2017

The Cook Islands National Library

By Rachel As a librarian (and because it was just down the road from where we were staying), I had to check out the national library. It is important to say, before I go on, that the Cook Islands covers 2million square kilometres of ocean and has a population of only 25,000 spread over 11 …

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Posted on Oct 16, 2017Jul 19, 2018

Un cruise sur le lagon

Mecredi le 11 octobre, à dix heures du matin un autobus nous a conduit à Captain Tama’s Lagoon Cruizes © pour un cruise à onze heures. Quand les bateaux étaient prêts à aller, notre grand groupe s’est séparer en quatre plus petit groupe pour aller sur les quatre bateaux. Quand on ses assis dans le …

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Posted on Oct 16, 2017Oct 16, 2017

Accessing the internet

It is one of those things we take for granted in Canada – that wifi hotspots are nearly ubiquitous, open, and freely available. Not the case everywhere. A bit of a wake-up call for us when we got to the Cook Islands! There were wifi hotspots but they were hotspots for a fee, and they …

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Posted on Oct 12, 2017Oct 16, 2017

My life in the cook islands

For the past few days I have been living in the Cook Islands. They are a protectorate of New Zealand but they have their own parliament and police force. In the time that we’ve been here It’s been hot, humid and rainy, but other than that it has been a very interesting time. The island …

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Posted on Oct 10, 2017Oct 16, 2017

The amazing Rarotonga

We arrived in Rarotonga on October 8.When I stepped out of the plane the first thing I noticed was that the air was muggy and humid and that it was difficult to breathe because I wasn’t used to it. One of the many things I noticed on the first day was that almost nothing is …

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