The Day I saw a Kiwi

In the year 2011 I was chosen to go on an exchange to New Zealand for three weeks. One of the reasons this country is well known is because they have a bird that is not able to fly and only lives there. This bird is called "The Kiwi". Nowadays there are like 12.000 Kiwis left in the world, all in New Zealand.
Well so one day I was talking with my host mother and she said "Go to the zoo. Is the only place where you'll have a chance to see a Kiwi". That's what she told me, and that's what I did. So I was in the zoo (with Max, my host brother) and we went to this house where the two kiwis lived. It was a dark place, the only thing that helped us see something was some red-termical lights that kept the place not too warm neither so cold. Suddenly we heard some steps and nearby a bush (the place was quite big) the Kiwi came out. I was quite surprised and so were all the people inside the Kiwis' house. I don't even know why I was so excited, it was only a bird that couldn't even fly... it didn't even make any sound or make something funny. In fact, the Kiwi was making the same route like trying to kill himself of boringness or something. Well, it doesn't really matter why the Kiwi makes people get so excited, or why the Kiwi can't fly (thing I asked a lot of people in NZ and nobody could answer me), what I really care about is that I saw the bird, which was, apparently, a great achievement.