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Kia Ora et Bonjour tout le monde
The week spent in Wellington seems a long time ago now with a month and a half having gone by, but the events of the week will never be forgotten.

Time is progressing towards our trip to France - and it doesn’t seem so long ago that the French students were just with us.

Spending the week with the French students was really interesting in lots of ways. We spent a lot of the week comparing the differences between our two cultures, and a point that came up a fair bit was the difference in the ways that New Zealanders view their own history, as opposed to the French attitude towards their own. The French seemed bemused at the way that...