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The first commercial bungee jump took place in New Zealand, in 1988. A. J. Hackett, a bungee enthusiast and entrepreneur, ushered in adventure tourism in New Zealand when he started charging people money to hurl themselves off of the Kawarua Bridge [...]in Queenstown. When Julia, an outdoors enthusiast and hospitality student, decided she was going to participate in the Auckland Internship Program, she knew she wanted a piece of that. /abroad/
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Make sure people don't touch the dogs with the bouncing heads, was one of many guidelines Ben laid out for his volunteer corps. As part of his time on the Auckland Internship Program, Ben was a coordinator of volunteers for the Auckland Art Fair. [...]His job was to round up volunteers, instruct them in their duties, and make sure everything went smoothly during the exhibition. Beard had to invent the position as he went along, and he says that really forced him to take the initiative to make the job work.
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