Retarded in Love

One of my classes I am taking is New Media Journalism.

For the first half of the class we had to work on an internet magazine. My site was aimed at talking about fishing in the Auckland area.

You can check it out here
The site is more about the design and less about the content.

Additionally for the second part of the class we have to submit articles to be published online at City Beat, which is a student online news format here in Auckland.

The first article I wrote is about the debate over Carbon Neutral.

The second one is a movie review of the movie The Bourne Ultimatum (which came out here later than it did in the US)

The third is about the All-Black's losing to France in the Rugby World Cup. It's interesting because I wrote it from the perspective of the French Students living in WSA.

I have to do 3 more stories, so once I get those in I'll post the links.

Also I really thought that this article written by my american friend Matt was really interesting.
I feel like I could've written the same article myself. We are the only two Americans in that class. He talks about how everyone loves to hate Americans. Now in particular I have not run into very much anti-Americanism here so far. The few times I have, it was mostly from people who were also foreign, and not so much from the kiwis. But it's still very interesting.

Also if you feel up to it, this other article he wrote is pretty interesting also. It's about how many kiwis take the South Island for granted.

Cheers,
Shawn