Santa Parade in Auckland New Zealand 2011
The 77th annual Santa Parade takes place in Auckland downtown on Sunday 27 November 2011. The kiwi style parade features colourful grand floats representing the cultural diversity of today’s Auckland, lively marching bands, amazing character balloons, plus an appearance by Santa Claus!
Tree Planting in Browns Bay, Auckland NZ 2011
Want a lasting memento of your visit to New Zealand? Let's plant NZ native trees!
Together with 80 volunteers, Amelia and Ellen (from 2WAYS) and Lucia Fadon-Padilla (from Spain) planted about 990 trees in Browns Bay Creek Reserve on Saturday 3 September 2011. Lucia travelled to Auckland via 2WAYS for a 6-week high school programme.
2WAYS Welcome You in Auckland, New Zealand
New Zealand has always been seen as a safe and welcoming destination for international students. Our reputation could be impacted by the way we handled the disruption caused by the magnitude 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch on 22 February 2011 .
Amelia and Ellen moved to Auckland and have been working closely with schools, homestay, tour operators and NZ Immigration to support international students and tourists affected by the earthquake and ensure their safety and comfort. We’re looking after our clients in their best interests.
As the rest of New Zealand are open and operating without earthquake disruption, you can be assured that we’re continually delivering the quality services to the international students and tourists in both islands of New Zealand. Talk to us now for your study or tour in Aotearoa.
Twelve volunteers dirtied their hands to clean up the Avon riverbank on Saturday, 18th September 2010, in spit of physical tiredness and emotional anxiety caused by the September 4 quake and over 400 aftershocks in the past 2 weeks.
60kg rubbish picked up mainly contributed to cigarette butts, plastic bags and beer bottles.
The area of Avon riverbank between Bridges of Remembrance and Gloucester Street that the volunteers cleaned up is rich in natural beauty, cultural heritage and tourist attractions.
The volunteers were New Zealand-born kiwis, migrants from Spain, China, USA and UK, and international students from Japan and Spain. They chose to volunteer their time and energy to keep Christchurch beautiful.
The annual volunteer event is organised since 2003 by 2WAYS who specialises in New Zealand Study and Tour Programmes for Spanish, Catalan and Chinese clients. It's part of the global environmental campaign Clean Up The World and Keep New Zealand Beautiful Week 2010.
This year’s World Environment Day theme is “Many Species. One Planet. One Future”. As usual in each winter season, Ellen and Amelia from 2WAYS Co. join in tree planting around
Together with other 45 volunteers, we plant 370 NZ native trees in Port Hills of
Celebration of Sant Jordi's Day (
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The local residents and visitors from
The celebration organised by 2WAYS Co. is the first of its kind in
23 April is the day known in Catalan as La Diada de Sant Jordi and it is traditional to give a rose and a book to a loved one.
This tradition inspired UNESCO to declare this the International Day of the Book, since April 23, 1616 was also the date of death of both the English playwright William Shakespeare and the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes.