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campaign. He enlists workers to sell tickets to different business organisations and private individuals. It is really a popularity contest because the one who has the greatest number of workers is pretty sure to win. Thanks to my managers' hard work and a few sleepless nights I ended up Relay Queen, with my workers, although minus many gallons of petrol, very happy at the result. As Relay Queen for Central High I handed out trophies at the close of the two days meeting during which I had to sit on a dais in the middle of the track. At the end of May I graduated with my class and stood with the others honouring the American flag while our band played the Star Spangled Banner. At the end of my school year followed a hurried fortnight of slumber parties at which you ate, sang, played records, talked all night and generally did everything but slumber. Then there were the farewell parties, rushing around to say goodbye to everyone, and in between all this, packing or rather trying to cram twice as many belongings in the same number of cases. Leaving my family was very sad and I can never hope to repay them for the love and feeling of security they gave me, a lone Maori amongst lots of Americans all of Scandinavian descent and therefore about as far removed from the Maori as you can get. Once away from my town however, and amongst the group of 32 foreign students with whom I was