There's an election coming up in New Zealand, and the campaign has picked up steam since the World Cup finished. Last night there was a meet-the-candidates event at the community center in my neighborhood, which I realize I haven't mentioned much. It's called Aro Valley, and is pretty well-known as an area full of free-thinking, alternative hippie types. A few people practice Falun Dafa (don't ask me what it is) in the park on my route to work, there are yoga classes in the community center, and the basketball court is more often used for bicycle polo, popular among the fixed-gear bicycle crowd (read: hipsters).
So it's no real surprise that Aro Valley hosted its own meet-the-candidates night. Thinking myself familiar with this sort of thing after hearing the late Jack Layton speak once at Queen's and attending multiple similar events throughout my life, I decided to attend a pub quiz rather than a political discussion. I was surprised to read about what I missed in the next days' paper - water guns! You can check out the whole story here.
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