Self-love? Musings from an ex-student The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others – Gandhi During my 4 years at Te Whare Wananga o Waikato, I’d get home at the end of a long, stressful day of classes and group assignments,
It finally happened. After 70 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II, your Head of State, has passed. In what will go down as one of the biggest events of this decade, after the passing of one of the most extraordinary lives that transcended generations, I think we were all
Mai i te kōpae ki te urupa, tātou ako tunu ai. Everytime we want to kōrero difficult topics, oftentimes we’ll find ourselves surrounding a beautiful wooden table, dimly lit by one of those shitty floral touch lamps with a gentle strumming of a guitar somewhere in the background. Fucking
An adage of old times in New Zealand but not anymore, because this is Aotearoa. In Aotearoa we speak Māori, we practice tikanga Māori, we embrace te ahurea Māori, we use mātauranga Māori. In Aotearoa we also face racist backlash from people who wish to return to old times when
Like many of you, I was raised through the boom of Rugby and saw the rise and fall of some of our greats. I saw the incessant push for Stat cards in Weetbix boxes (I see them still being shoved down throats even now), and I was also one of
“Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven,” – Matthew 16:19 What do we actually know about private schools? Sometimes they wear ties, sometimes they have tennis courts, oh and it turns out they don’t give a shit about the laws we hold true on earth or basic
Recent prices for buying homes has become unreasonable with Kirikiriroa reaching a new high for median cost of a 3 bedroom house at $847,591, with our median income at $39,583. The maths isn’t maths-ing my friends and something isn’t right. We’re not trying to be cynical, but the reality is,
Ahh, money. For a while I was struggling to come up with an idea for this, but then I was given the topic of student finances. And boy do I have a lot to say about that. While I am one of the lucky ones who doesn’t actually have to
So the budget came out recently, and what that meant for a lot of the tauira throughout Aotearoa was confused brains as they were left scratching their heads in hopes for some semblance of understanding re monetary value in their daily lives. But the words on everyone’s lips are:
The theme for this week is “money,” and so originally this article was going to be on the different support paths you can take as you study, or something along those lines. But after the events of this week? I am angry, and heartbroken. So you know what? Get ready