Posted by Allan
Non-sexual stories. Yes, we still put those in from time to time. This one is about something that they did late one night while camping. It involves a group of people going into the bush parkland to try to estimate the population of a colony of kiwis. Many years ago, I hear such a colony was established in the Waitakere Park but I’m unsure if it is still there now.
The main purpose of this story as far as the Letters Project is concerned is to create a deeper understanding between Lizamoa and Joseph when she gets to take part in some of the work he was doing. The second purpose was to get her a job working at the Park Information Centre. We had written a conversation between Lizamoa and the Head Ranger which took place that night, but as you will see below this second idea got dropped and that conversation got deleted.
I want to take a moment to say that although some of these stories are based on the Waitakere Regional Park, the people and events are completely fictitious and not intended to be any real person. Joseph works for the park in the stories and becomes a senior ranger, but again I have no idea if an Indian man ever worked for this park. If one did or does, he is not the Joseph found in these stories.
This story mentions a possible job at the Park Information Centre for Lizamoa. We intended this to be a new storyline but we later decided to back away from it in case someone like her already worked in this information centre. At that point, this story could have easily been deleted but it wasn't so here it is being published instead.
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