Set task: Read the fun facts posted on the website and choose your ‘Top 3.’ On your blog, post your ‘Top 3 Fun Facts’ about NZ in your own words.
My favourite facts:
1. It was the first major nation to have universal suffrage. In 1893 all male and female citizens are legally allowed to vote.
2. Gisborne is the first city in the world to see the sunrise because it is 496.3 kilometers away from the International Date Line.
3. This was the first country to have its three top positions of power held simultaneously by women; Prime Minister Helen Clark, Governor General Dame Silvia Cartwright and the Chief Justice Sian Elias.
Facts about New Zealand in my own words:
The kakapo is the only flightless parrot in the world and only lives in the south part of New Zealand and cannot be found in any other part of the world.
The New Zealand rugby team has won the world cup three times in a row which is a world record and has the best rugby team in the world.
there are more vending machines all the way in japan than there are people in New Zealand ( That's a lot of vending machines!!!)