Day 4 - The Jaffa Race, Haggis Ceremony and Out for Lunch

This morning we labelled Jaffas with our favourite numbers, along with other numbers in sequence up to one-hundred-and-something, armed ourselves with the trusty boxes from Tuesday, and set out.

We walked to Baldwin St, the steepest street in the world according to the Guiness Book of World Records (and the sign at the bottom). The entire way we attempted to determine where we were going for lunch by badgering Mrs Cook (with no luck).

We released our hundred-and-something Jaffas on the footpath (safety first), in tribute to the Cadbury chocolate festival's event held every July. We happily watched them bounce down the hill at enough speed to hurt Amber’s hand when she attempted to catch the winning Jaffa.

Jaffa Race 1

Click here to see a photo and video from last year's official Jaffa race (ONE News).

Mrs Cook loved that you could hear the Jaffas coming, and Martine liked the way they looked. We decided to have more than one race, but quite a few Jaffas had to be culled from the pack, as they had received severe injuries (such as shedding their skin). We had a second and third race with the survivors. Ashleigh’s Jaffa won race 1 – Jaffa number 73. Brenden’s Jaffa won race 3 – number 16…and an unlabelled Jaffa took out the second race (Yang and Cooper both claim it was their unlabelled one).

We picked up our mess before then running or walking to the top of the street so that we could say we'd done it...and get photos like this:

Back at school, it was time for our very own Haggis Ceremony.

Reactions:

• Amber found it disgusting, and didn’t like the texture in her mouth
• Mikayla thought it tasted like seaweed
• Tōrea liked the crackers (but not the Haggis)
• Ellen, Ursula, Nga, Cooper and Ben had tasted it before, and all of them liked it except Cooper
• Yang decided he would skip trying it
  
• Martine, Brenden, and Mrs Cook tried it for the first time and thought it tasted good, Mrs Cook thought it tasted like pâté

After interval, we had a very quick game of hangman to guess (finally) where we were going for lunch. After an “A” and an “I” were placed on the short little lines, we knew the answer; Filadelfio’s. We projected the menu on the board, selected from the menu, and Lewis typed up our order to hand over on arrival.

After Filadelfio’s we filled out Dunedin postcards we bought while out and about yesterday, describing our elective highlights. We wrote with our souvenir Dunedin pens we also purchased. Ben and Nga had brought more Cadbury's chocolate for us to take home (as they have connections on the inside), and Mrs Cook rationed this out as we wrote reflections on our week (we have had more than enough chocolate to make up for not going on the tour!).

We made our last walk together down to the Garden's mall area, and posted our postcards to ourselves (how very tourist-like of us). Lewis informed me his arrived Saturday, good job NZPost.

And that, was us...being Dunedin.