Fraternising also paid off when it came to popularity. The Swedish boys started posting their lists in the lifts of the 10 hottest chicks in the hostel. One of the Havelock girls appeared at number one, another at five, and at seven: "the rest of the New Zealand girls".
The Spanish boys wouldn't be outdone, so their list appeared, headed by an Israeli girl as hottest of them all. Another Israeli had written: "Thank God we won something".
Spotted in an article on the Hawke's Bay Today website.
Good to see that some countries are not worried about being PC