Day 1 - Pure New Zealand

Well, the time has now come! School’s out for the holidays and your tour of New Zealand is about to begin. I hope that you are ready and excited! Curious Kiwi certainly is – he can’t wait to start the Great Kiwi Road Trip! Before you all hit the road, let’s take a minute to review some key facts about New Zealand.

Go to the Tourism New Zealand website and click on the ‘Facts - New Zealand People’ tab. Read about the people of New Zealand and then choose three interesting facts to post on your blog. The facts must be written in your own words. Do not simply copy and paste the facts from the website☺

1. Wholehearted embrace urban living, cafe, culture, appreciated for new culinary taste. Kiwis are likely to visit an asian restaurant or modern art gallery.

2. To say new zealand’s friendly people will be one of the things you love most about your visit. A casually chat at the bar, restaurant of any local market. And also Strike up conversation along your journey.

3. New zealand european were brave, rugged and independent. They had to clean the land, and painstaking dangerous activities. These early new zealanders will become a hardly multi skilled.   

Bonus points

Your tour of New Zealand is going to start right here in Auckland. Watch the Tourist video for Auckland to learn about the awesome things that you can see and do in the city. Once you’ve finished, choose your favourite five activities from the video and list them on your blog.  

1. In this city nestled between two big natual havas water is never far away. Auckland's biggest landmark is Rangitoto island. Which can be seen from all over the city.

2. In the Stately Auckland memorial New Zealand. Here the story and see the treasures of Aotearoa. The land of a long white cloud, as the native maori people call New Zealand. Their Ancestors sailed here about a thousand years ago. And their aferisti proud culture is still very much alive today.

3. Children love the Auckland zoo, where they can meet and treat the animals of the african savanna.

4. Another great day out is rainbows end, bounce into each other during fun rides, whirl around in the air, of get dump in seconds

5. The are more thrills down town at the sky tower. Where you can base jump at breathtaking speeds. If you rather just watch go to the observation platform to look straight down at auckland central street

Now it’s time to start your tour! Curious Kiwi decides to start by taking you on a short tour through downtown Auckland. You stop at the Sky Tower, the tallest building in all of New Zealand. When you look up, you see a huge New Zealand flag on the top of the tower. This flag was created back in 1902. That makes the New Zealand flag 115 years old!

Last year, the Prime Minister of New Zealand suggested that we should replace the flag with a new, updated design. He invited everyone in New Zealand to come up with their own flag design and submit it.

For this activity, it is your turn to design a new flag. Use any drawing programme that you wish.  Once you have finished, post a copy of your design on your blog. Describe the flag, in words, below the picture. Be sure to tell us what is on the flag and what inspired your design.   

My flag of New zealand

I decided to go with this type of theme because i thought it looked brilliant. Down the bottom of the flag is plain yellow. I wanted to put in some yellow because it made my flag brighten up.

On the right we have a light blue. I inserted a light blue because it look like a matching colour two the dark blue. On the left we have a very dark blue. And the reason why i inserted that particular colour is because the X keys look like it went really well with the colour. And last of all the X Keys of course, That big black X Key.