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:''This never happened, but it's here. It might inspire someone someday. Feel free to copy and paste.''

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[[File:Elsa amylin kiwi experience.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Experience Kiwi hitchhiking!]]
[[User:Guaka|Guaka]] is seriously thinking of setting up a '''hitchhiking course in [[New Zealand]]''', sometime in Summer 2007. Let's gather people and ideas on this wiki who want to help organize. You don't even have to be in [[New Zealand]] or going there. You can help with ideas, writing, planning, contacting people, and by improving the wiki pages on the Hitchwiki.

== Goals ==
# Get more people to stick out their thumbs
# Create positive media attention for both hitchhiking and hospitality exchange
# Have more hitchhiking courses all over the world
# Create a useful [[Hitchhiking Zine]] and useful information for others who want to organize Hitch courses.

== You want to help? ==
* [[User:Guaka|Guaka]]: ideas, wiki, writing, hitching
* [[User:Amylin|amylin]]: graphics, ideas, hitching
* [[:couchsurfing:JOEPIE84|Joep]]: graphics, ideas, writing and doing one in [[Netherlands|Holland]]
* [[:couchsurfing:ANU*|Anu]]: hitching-virgin and soon-to-be NZ resident, so perfect test-dummy for the project. Also capable of some writing and techie things. 
* [[User:Luna1|Luna1]]: ideas, writing, remember the Golden Days of hitching in NZ
* [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]: ideas, writing, anything else, can't do any hitching in NZ :(
* [[User:Salman|Salman]]: promotion via digihitch, ideas, coding help

:''Add yourself if you want to help out, give a short overview of what you want to do. And, you don't have to be in [[New Zealand]] to help!''

== Communication ==
[[New Zealand hitch course - call for participation]]

We can communicate through this wiki, but Guaka also set up an open mailing list: [mailto:hitchcourse@googlegroups.com hitchcourse@googlegroups.com]

You can join it on http://groups.google.com/group/hitchcourse/about?hl=en
<!-- (Using CouchSurfing Groups would be nice, but it would exclude everyone who is not on CouchSurfing.) -->

== Where ==
You can't really hitchhike easily on the ferries in New Zealand, so there are two main options:
# South Island
# North Island

[[User:Guaka|Guaka]] is currently located in [[Nelson]], and there will be some more people at the [[:cswiki:New Zealand Collective|CouchSurfing Collective]] who are interested in working on this.

=== Nelson - Nelson ===
Around South Island, starting in Nelson.

== When ==
A weekend in Southern Hemisphere Summer. Probably in March.

== The name ==
Hitchhiking ''competitions'' are fairly common in [[Eastern Europe]], especially in [[Russia]]. But the ''course'' is going to be less competitive, with more focus on people communicating and improving intercultural understanding. That's why Guaka decided to use the word '''course''':
# The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
# The ground or path traversed; track; way.
# Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
::''from [http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=gcide&Query=course The Collaborative International Dictionary of English]''

== Hospitality exchange ==
We can use existing hospitality exchange networks, CouchSurfing, Hospitality Club, WWOOFing farms, to find people who can offer hitchhikers some food and/or a place to stay if they didn't make it for the night.

== Media ==
We want to get articles in newspapers and items on TV.

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