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So, Cindy, here we are on the out. Games closing. How's the week been for you? Excellent. I've thoroughly enjoyed it. It's been worthwhile making the effort to come down here. And it's been overwhelming a number that are here and the friends we have made from other parts of the Pacific. Have you been down here all week? Yes. I arrived here on Friday night, and I'm heading off back to Hamilton tomorrow morning. So, what have been the highlights [00:00:30] for you? Well, the the biggest highlight for me was the, um, human rights on the Tuesday, um, when we had over 100 transgender people there and we mixed up and had a good time, That was one of the main thing, but, uh, yes, I think the whole the whole week was good. Have you been out to any cultural events or some of the, um, exhibitions around town I've seen? Well, I've seen the [00:01:00] assume Nothing exhibition. Uh, I saw that in the movie. Um, need no need to go to that. Um, I've got the video now so I can watch it when I go home. Did you go to the opening of that exhibition? Yes, I in Hamilton. Uh, the Waikato Museum made told us we had to go and make a digital story of my our transition. There were two of us, and, uh, I've just donated the, uh I showed the story on, um, [00:01:30] Thursday afternoon here, and I donated the, um, story and the story board that I made up to the, um, to the archives. And were you were you, um, involved with the opening ceremony for the art games? Yes. I was here on Saturday, and that was great, too. How was that? How was that to be involved with, uh, 1500 other gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual people? It's marvellous. You know, it's great to be able to [00:02:00] come out and enjoy oneself without being, um, you know, tied up, told Well, then being enjoy enjoying meeting the others as well, you know, from all over the Pacific Rim, you know, and I met up with quite a few Indians and made great friends, and we'll be going when I get home, we'll be adding them to the old Facebook page. What about the parties? Have you been to any [00:02:30] of the parties? I'm going to the last one tonight, and, um, I went last night to me. Um, I didn't stay too long, I. I was getting tired and been a hard week. So how have the parties been? Have they been well attended? Yes, they have. Um Well, um, I think I was at the And what? I'll be going to the Revolution tonight. Um, [00:03:00] I hope I don't sleep in for the bus in the morning. So what do you think the best part of this whole week has been about? Well, I think it's the getting together of, of all the people of of the the different diversity and, um, being able to speak out of their problems. And we got to go back knowing what we can do to try and help others to get their countries [00:03:30] to, you know, toe the line, as it were with discrimination and violence. Some of those countries, some of the rights violations were pretty horrific. Aren't they very especially hearing the story of the young Nepalese boy who got fired from the army. It was an amazing story. I haven't heard that one. What was that about? He was He's only a little short fellow. He got, uh [00:04:00] he was in the Nepalese army and they threw him out. And I from what I could gather, got very limited English. And he was thrown in jail because of his transition from female to male. Do you know how long he was in jail for? Not sure. At the, um, who we had in at the ST Andrews Church hall. Um, he broke down [00:04:30] when he was telling us the story. Very moving. There you go.
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