Written by Katie Llanos-Small

Katie Llanos-Small is the founding editor of foreign-correspondence.com. She graduated from the University of Auckland (New Zealand) in 2005, with a degree in Political Studies and Latin American Studies. She also studied Chinese (Mandarin) and Arabic at university. Recently Katie spent a year studying advanced Spanish and teaching English in Madrid. Currently she is studying towards a Graduate Diploma of Journalism from the Auckland University of Technology. Her main areas of interest include global migration and refugee issues and the politics of underdevelopment.

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¿Who knew?

By Katie Llanos-Small, March 21st, 2007

An eager student brought to school the textbook he uses in private classes to show me a section on New Zealand it contains. I was stoked to see some attention being given to our little country, but most of all, I was intrigued to learn about the Maori. The Maori used to hunt a huge, flightless bird called the Mao (which is now extinct), and it’s from this bird that they got their name. The things you learn, eh.
Hey, it would make perfect sense if the Moa was indeed called the Mao, but sadly I think the authors got a little carried away with the wrong end of the taiaha on this one.

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