Our host, a Maori leader who is an accountancy professor at Victoria University, tells us to stretch out and relax. It's not your responsibility to stay awake. It's the speaker's responsibility to keep you interested enough to stay awake. Friday we head to the Southern island to visit an MBA class at Canterbury University in Christchurch. After a weekend of recreation and relaxation with our host families in Christchurch, we board the plane home.
Conversation revolves around the lessons learned.
There is consensus that intellectual excitement abounds in the clash of public policy and market forces. There is disagreement about the ability of Roger Douglas to carry out his plans, and the desirability of his doing so. There is concern for the fate of the Maori as a cultural entity. And there is deep appreciation for the many Kiwis who helped make our trip a memorable one.