If you want to get something fun done in a hurry – get a busy person to do it! If you want to organise NZ Dance Week in Gisborne – ask the local councillor who has a love of hip hop and street dance, is a father of six kids who love kapa haka, and supports the local dance crew. ...
A reflection being a Rangatahi Social Worker I’ve been wondering for the last hour or so if I should put this up and it maybe the fatigue making the decision for me, or maybe it’s just the heartache, but here it goes. The Past My first job in Social Work was working at the Activity ...
Note: This is a facebook post I repurposed for my blog What if Te Reo and English were banned at schools? And replaced with Klingon! Imagine NZ was invaded tomorrow and all of a sudden our kids were banned from speaking English or Māori in school, they were only allowed to speak Klingon. Furthermore our ...
Depression is like trying to tread water in a vast open ocean in pitch black darkness. You don’t know which way you need to be treading water but you’re gonna try and tread it anyway. Initially, you’re energised and think you’ll get out of the water soon. That you’ll find land. You tell yourself, if ...
Yesterday I heard a person say some very specific things against Maori people. Making statements like that if you gave Maori an inch then it is probable they would take the whole mile. It’s kind of ironic that this is exactly how Maori land loss occurred, but I’ll save that point for another day because ...
I ACTUALLY wrote a letter congratulating someone else because I didn’t think I won it. I really didn’t. Any time anyone would ask, I would say: “I think I’m in the top three, I’m confident that I’ll be in the top three.” Which I guess is still true.Thank you. Thank you is all I ...