2009年7月22日水曜日

settlers


I will tell you some information about Maori lifestyle.

Maori is the oldest settler in New Zealand. They wear traditional costume, but not looks like costume of other tribes, because New Zealand is not so hot. Maori sometimes wore thick clothes made by birds feather or sheep. They have great tatoos in their body, and it represent their family or tribes and so on. Some are appeals to their force.

They lived house made by wood, and some houses have carving called Tiki in front of their house. They have two houses, in summer they live normal house but in winter, they live which half of house is under ground because it is hotter than normal house. And they sometimes held the meeting at meeting hall, that is also made by wood.

They eat fishes, beans, fruits, and so on. They also eat meat for example lamb, but some are became cannibal. Cannibal means "people who eats human flesh". But they did not eat families or their friend. They ate people from Europe or member of other tribes or groups after the fight or war. They are basically lived by self-sufficiency, but recently Maori use money and buy foods or goods which they need.

2009年7月21日火曜日

Introduction


I'll write about Auckland. Auckland has the biggest population in New Zealand, and called "city of sail".So in habor of Auck land, there are often so many yachts and Auckland is for famous for sports and activities related to the sea. Yacht race is one of famous sport. In the past, big race called Louis Vuitton Cup is held at Auckland. This race decide a the world champion of the yacht race, a lot of visitors came to watch the race. In the race, NZ team won twice and became world champion twice.

For visitor sea sea is become one of the best activities, for example, boat cruise. If you cruise to the sea you can enjoy the great view like islands, fiord and also sky. If you cruise at night, you can sea beautiful lights of cities. You can cruise not only sea, but also cruise to river in the city. If you ruise to city, there is another fun differ from sea cruise.

In Auckland, there are another famous sports. If want to watch it, you should go to Eden Park to watch Rugby or Cricket games. Rugby is famous sports in NZ, and rugby national team, All Blacks is strong team in the world. All Black is famous for dance Maori's traditional dance, Haka before the game.