Saturday 10th March. Went with Toby to meet Tanya and Sylvie in Mount Eden after they had been to Sylvie’s cricket game, dropped off Mirabai and friends at the mall on the way. We had lunch at a place called Circus Circus where I had my favourite; waffles with bacon and banana. After this Toby took Sylvie on to another cricket game while Tanya and I went to the pasifika festival. The annual festival is at Western Springs park where there is a big lake and around the lake were ‘villages’ representing the pacific islands. At each island village there was a stage where there was dancing or singing, food and stalls. It was a great cultural experience for me to see places like Samoa, Tahiti and Fiji represented. Tanya and I sat and watched some dancing at the Cook Islands village and we were the only non-Pacificas! The stalls were all bright and colourful with women wearing bold flower hats and multi-colours. There was big jewellery on sale and I bought a shell necklace. We also bought flowers for our hair and really enjoyed the chilled island atmosphere. I really wanted to see what the Fiji village was like having really wanted to go to Fiji. When we got there some children were dancing in a competition and were really going for it which was great to watch. Everyone was eating water melons which huge servings of ice cream. Before leaving we bought some pasifika food for dinner which consisted of chop suey, taro (a type of vegetable), potato salad, rice and fish. Sadly when we all tried it later we found it either too dry or too buttery. Nevertheless we had a great day and it will be a highlight of my time in Auckland.
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