Now we are back in Wellington, recuperating and planning our next trip to the South Island which starts Thursday night! We have been staying with Lynette, our new friend from our Landmark Class. She has given us a bed that is not in our van to sleep on, and we have repaid her by cooking lots of yummy food, including 2 cheesecakes!
We participated in the culminating event of our friend Carolina's Landmark community project. As an Italian immigrant to New Zealand, she became aware of a WWII Maori-only battalion that fought to liberate Italy. After finding out that some of these 80-90 year old men could still remember the words to certain Italian songs, she came up with the idea of re-writing "O Solo Mio" with Maori words. Along with Club Gharibaldi, the local Italian club, we sang this song as a tribute to the veterans at Wellington's Italian festival. Sounds strange, but it was a moving experience.
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