Although we attend classes on the 14th Jan, but the lecture didn't start until yesterday afternoon. I have met like 2 more M'sians!! yey!!!
And yesterday morning, we have this powhiri ceremony (a welcome ceremony) at our University's Marae, where in this occassion, it is the ceremony of welcoming the students into the big family of School of Education. Then, after all the speeches, we have this 'hongi' ceremony, where you will go up to each of them, and have a nose to nose touching ceremony. The Maori believed that when you touch nose with each other, two people's breath will unite or intermingle together, and that you're the people of the land and not a visitor anymore.
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