thats my life
My real name means drugs.
My Mum just started calling me Honey instead. I was happy about that as not everyone can pronounce my real name right. Or spell it right.
Apparently I was a brat as a child, so no idea why she chose Honey.
Tautoro is home. I've lived there a lot of my life and in the last couple of years moved to Kaikohe. I live with my parents up here and 7 of my 9 siblings stay at home.
My Mum is so small, and I'm taller than my mum. She's ultra short. Dad's tall, so I must get a lot of my height from him.
My siblings are naughty, the get away with a lot! My parents never let me do what they do, but maaaaaaan what they do! I'm the middle child.
As a family we go to my brothers a lot in Ruawai, Dargaville. He's got a little house for him and his family that comes with the job, milking.
We just go to the end of the road where there are the mud oysters. It sucks when you have to go out and get them cos you get cuts and get stuck in the mud.
We take them back to his place and eat them. Raw. I love oysters. I like them fresh.
I like watching movies, any sort. I could watch 21 Jump Street over and over again. It's Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill, they're undercover cops and have to go back to school. I just lock myself in my room and watch films all the time, it's best to hide away from all those siblings.
Where we used to stay in Tautoro with my great grandfather,
he took my Dad in when my dad was young, we lived with him all his life. He was the last of his generation down there, but then he died.
His tangi was gutting. There was heaps of people there. My dad was gutted.
He was quite old, but my papa never liked anyone else doing anything for him. He had to have a Stroller for the elderly but he still walked by himself. It was pretty admirable.
My Papa was fluent in Te Reo, but he didn't pass it on. My cousins little kids run around speaking hard out Maori, but I can't understand them. I wish I knew it though.
There were the caves where our ancestors were buried right there, it was kind of creepy. We weren't allowed near them. Sometimes when family came papa would take them up there, but we weren't allowed up there. "They're tapu, don't go by them." My Papa used to always say. There's a spring down the bottom of the house that he used to pump the water from but my brother had to do it, I wasn't allowed.
My friends are into partying, but that's not me. I was staying home and looking after my Dad, he's getting better. He's going for x-rays soon, he had a stroke so one side isn't fully functioning properly. The night that it happened, I was out with my mates and I got home and no one was there, but I knew someone should have been home. So I rang my brother and found out. It was pretty scary and we thought it would be days but it was months.
My sister was 4, and my other siblings were at primary school, Mum works so I had to leave school and look after him. It was hard, but I learnt a lot from looking after him. Lucky my Dad's mates were around to help, they're real good people.
Dad's got the same strengths as my Papa, getting back to how he was. I signed up on the RTC course but he didn't want me to go. But he's better now so it's OK to be on the ĀKAU course. I wanted to do the ĀKAU course to get out of the house and I was sitting in the car park and saw ĀKAU doing something.
I'm looking forward to learning different stuff, it's cool to designing a marae, I don't know a lot of places that would have a bunch of youths design a marae.
I agree with Matua Percy, ‘the key to our success with this kaupapa is communication, at all levels’. He's right, cos if you don't talk, no one will know your ideas"
My Mum just started calling me Honey instead. I was happy about that as not everyone can pronounce my real name right. Or spell it right.
Apparently I was a brat as a child, so no idea why she chose Honey.
Tautoro is home. I've lived there a lot of my life and in the last couple of years moved to Kaikohe. I live with my parents up here and 7 of my 9 siblings stay at home.
My Mum is so small, and I'm taller than my mum. She's ultra short. Dad's tall, so I must get a lot of my height from him.
My siblings are naughty, the get away with a lot! My parents never let me do what they do, but maaaaaaan what they do! I'm the middle child.
As a family we go to my brothers a lot in Ruawai, Dargaville. He's got a little house for him and his family that comes with the job, milking.
We just go to the end of the road where there are the mud oysters. It sucks when you have to go out and get them cos you get cuts and get stuck in the mud.
We take them back to his place and eat them. Raw. I love oysters. I like them fresh.
I like watching movies, any sort. I could watch 21 Jump Street over and over again. It's Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill, they're undercover cops and have to go back to school. I just lock myself in my room and watch films all the time, it's best to hide away from all those siblings.
Where we used to stay in Tautoro with my great grandfather,
he took my Dad in when my dad was young, we lived with him all his life. He was the last of his generation down there, but then he died.
His tangi was gutting. There was heaps of people there. My dad was gutted.
He was quite old, but my papa never liked anyone else doing anything for him. He had to have a Stroller for the elderly but he still walked by himself. It was pretty admirable.
My Papa was fluent in Te Reo, but he didn't pass it on. My cousins little kids run around speaking hard out Maori, but I can't understand them. I wish I knew it though.
There were the caves where our ancestors were buried right there, it was kind of creepy. We weren't allowed near them. Sometimes when family came papa would take them up there, but we weren't allowed up there. "They're tapu, don't go by them." My Papa used to always say. There's a spring down the bottom of the house that he used to pump the water from but my brother had to do it, I wasn't allowed.
My friends are into partying, but that's not me. I was staying home and looking after my Dad, he's getting better. He's going for x-rays soon, he had a stroke so one side isn't fully functioning properly. The night that it happened, I was out with my mates and I got home and no one was there, but I knew someone should have been home. So I rang my brother and found out. It was pretty scary and we thought it would be days but it was months.
My sister was 4, and my other siblings were at primary school, Mum works so I had to leave school and look after him. It was hard, but I learnt a lot from looking after him. Lucky my Dad's mates were around to help, they're real good people.
Dad's got the same strengths as my Papa, getting back to how he was. I signed up on the RTC course but he didn't want me to go. But he's better now so it's OK to be on the ĀKAU course. I wanted to do the ĀKAU course to get out of the house and I was sitting in the car park and saw ĀKAU doing something.
I'm looking forward to learning different stuff, it's cool to designing a marae, I don't know a lot of places that would have a bunch of youths design a marae.
I agree with Matua Percy, ‘the key to our success with this kaupapa is communication, at all levels’. He's right, cos if you don't talk, no one will know your ideas"