We hope to add as much as we can about the country, it's history and the lifestyle here, hopefully you'll find reading interesting.. If you have a question or questions, feel free to ask, if we don't know the answer we'll do our best to find it for you..

If you have a question you feel doesn't quite fit elsewhere ask here and we'll try to answer as best we can.

Sometimes we all wonder how some things got started, we'll try to explain some of the things unique to NZ here, questions are of course more than welcome.

We hope to share some of the culture and protocols of the Maori here, and a little about how us kiwis interact, if you'd like to ask any questions, feel free to ask, we'll do our best to answer.

Feel free to browse here and learn about the country, it's history and culture, if you have a question or questions feel free to ask, we'll do our best to answer.

We'll add some of the maori language here, it may be one word at a time, well give the word, how it's pronounced, and what it means in english.. There's no letter "F"in the Maori alphabet. if you see a word that starts with "WH" then that is pronounced as an "F" in maori..

If there's an "R" in a word, it's always rolled, just like the Scottish roll their R in a good Scottish accent..

The other surprising thing is that Rarotongan and the Maori languages are very similar, one difference is the Rarotongan's speak a lot faster, so people like myself who aren't 100% fluent have a lot of trouble keeping up, some fluent Maori have been known to have a little trouble keeping up especially given the Rarotongan's have a slightly different way of pronouncing some words..

At some stage we'll start a different thread and ask you to see if you can translate a few words in to english, it may be one word, it may be a sentence.. Don't worry though, we'll make sure it's only words that have already been added here..

We'll make any site related announcements here about changes or current problems and such, so keep an eye out for new notices here..

Only us admins can view and post here, please try to keep chat about site related issues as our posts here add to our site post count, we don't want members thinking we're gossiping in here and ignoring them or gossiping about them..