Daniella: Hi, Jan, how are you this morning?

Jan: I'm really good, thank you.

Daniella: So please tell me where are we now?

Jan: We're in Aukland, New Zealand and it's St. Patrick's day today.

Daniella: Oh, wow! What day is today?

Jan: March the 17th is St. Patrick's day in New Zealand.

Daniella: Oh, cool, that all over the world isn't it?

Jan: That's right but everybody else is behind us by a few hours.

Daniella: Oh, I see.

Jan: So we're the first people to celebrate St. Patrick's Day?

Daniella: Right because of the time then, right, exactly. Please tell me more about St. Patrick's. What kind of a party is this? What day?

Jan: In New Zealand, any excuse for a party and we'll have one and St. Patrick's Day is traditionally a day where people with Irish heritage dress in green because that's the national color of Ireland, and drink lots and lots of alcohol.

Daniella: Yeah, this sounds so cool. So where are we now? What are we doing?

Jan: We'll were sitting here and we're all dressed in green and some of us have green wigs on, and some of them are sparkly, and some of them are curly and we have funny hats on and green finger nails, which we will run home and clean very soon and sometimes we put food coloring in the food and make it green.

Daniella: Why all this obsession with green?

Jan: I think because it's a very Irish thing. New Zealand is a very young country and we have a lot of people with Irish heritage here so they want to connect with their ancestors and it's one way to do that.

Daniella: And green would be like the national color of Ireland?

Jan: Yeah, and New Zealand is black and white which is very boring.

Daniella: Oh, OK. So, here we're together. They're six of us. We're having breakfast and please tell me a bit about our breakfast.

Jan: Well, this morning we had a traditional Kiwi breakfast which was hashbrowns, bacon, sausages, scrambled eggs, grilled tomatoes, and baked beans, so that will probably mean we don't eat now for the rest of the day.

Daniella: And for drink?

Jan: Oh, and we've had a large glass of Guiness, which is a traditional Irish beer. It's a very bitter, malty beer. Very creamy.

Daniella: OK, Jan, thank you very much.