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Thursday, September 13, 2007

Shortly after my last entry, I found myself in an "Irish Pub". There are a lot of Irish Pubs in New Zealand, and all of them identify themselves quite clearly as "Irish Pub"s. It is perhaps because of this that I have seemed to have picked up a "spot on" Irish dialect that seems to come out, often unknown to me, when I enter an "Irish Pub". This "problem became apparent to me when I was stopped by a couple of older ladies who refused to let me enter until I answered their questions. About a minute into the conversations, they started arguing over whether I was indeed Canadian or not, as my dialect and my "Roots" sweater disagreed. I was called a liar by both and sentenced to get drunk.

Upstairs I couldn't find a seat alone so I sat at a table with three "fellow immigrants"; a Samoan, a Scott and an Indian gentleman from the Punjab. Talking to these three made me feel better for some reason. Perhaps we were all sort of in the same spot, or perhaps I was just drunk again (or perhaps both), but talking to these three made me feel somewhat at home in the world.

I left the pub an hour later and met Dallas, the fellow British Columbian at the next Pub. I didn't last too long, but we did agree to meet the next day and tour Auckland together.
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