ko te wiki o wheako tuatahi ✨
Ki te kotahi te kākaho ka whati,
ki te kāpuia e kore e whati.
an experience of a lifetime,
a safe space for my reo,
he moemoeā,
hoa hōu, pūkenga hōu,
ko te puna o taku aroha, ko te waiata 🥹
TAI AROHA KI TE AO 🥹❤️🖤💛
Tūwhita te hopo, mairangatia te angitū ✨
I made my Nan a promise in 2020, in her words “so that if anything ever happens, you can always rely on yourself to achieve whatever it is your heart desires”
I didn’t know it would take 5 years to fulfill that promise 😂 A music degree that had one paper left paused turned into Te Tohu Paetahi then a full shift to finish my Bachelor of the Arts - Major in Te Reo Māori at Te whare Wānanga o Waikato. I like to think she knew all of what was to come, I was told not to leave my music degree so close to finishing for full immersion, I was asked how was I going to study with two kids, what was the point etc.
TĒNEI.
The realisation of tūpunas wildest dreams, a language brought back to my whānau, to my uri, conversations with my nan i te reo Māori, a tohu for all of my whānau who were told they shouldn’t or they couldn’t.
A single mom, diaspora, moved house 4 times lol signed divorce papers, worked full time, part-time, accepted every side quest, travelled the motu, broken, healing, grieving, loved and finding my way back home.
To my village, kore ngā kupu - for holding me together, āwhina, tautoko, checking my assignments 😂, staying up late with me, LOVING me when it felt impossible..
He mihi aroha ki a koutou katoa, he aroha mutunga kore.
We did it nanny,
Bachelor of the Arts- Major in Te Reo Māori
Diploma Te tohu Paetahi
(Still claiming my music degree too 😂)
soft front, strong back, wild heart 🌱🤍
next stop - Masters 🤝
A tohu to always remember the pūrākau of atua wāhine, the mana wāhine of who I am uri, the whetū I look toward & the kaha one voice can carry.
he mihi aroha ki a @tylrjade 🫶
he wahine māia, he wahine atawhai,
he wahine pūmanawa koe ✨
