Kindness

This week (as we all know) is Maori week as well as Keep New Zealand Beautiful week.  Lots of fun activities were planned by our school and it is weeks like these that I am so privileged, and so often reminded by how wonderful it is to be teaching at Bay Of Islands College in Kawakawa.  Not only do we have the most amazing team of teachers, supporting and helping each other to survive, but we also have students who EMBRACE being Maori and EMBRACE their culture. Students went out during this whole week to collect rubbish from all the streets in Kawakawa, enjoying doing their part in : Keep New Zealand beautiful. (I wish we could have this happening at least once in a fortnight.)

I am so absolutely blessed to be part of this awesome community of learning. Where students still run to class, and where students are genuinely disappointed and upset if the ask you:  "Whaea, when do we have math? " and I answer: "we don't have math today" to which the respond:".aaaaw NO!! this is a bad day!!"

I had a wonderful moment in the coffee shop, PBK (Pure Bliss Kitchen) (in Moerewa...a must go to) when this beautiful older lady approached me with the words: "Kia Ora, and who are you? you are so beautiful, thanks for blessing our town with your beautiful light" This is why I love living in this area. People are still so "real" and caring, and people who speak their mind, and say it as it is, those people are my tribe, and my favorite kind of people.