Labib

“I’m a massive nerd. My brain was wired by birth for me to be an engineer and I think like an engineer. I don’t like doing things I don’t understand how to do. When I’m on just a random dance floor; random music, I don’t know what to do; I just don’t do anything. I […]

Josie

“I’m Josie and I love to read and write. This love started by reading the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. I absolutely love those stories, the adventures, the secrets and most of all the twists and turns. Harry Potter inspired me in my dream to make books full of magic and wonder for people […]

Renee & Alexus-Rose

“We should be outside in this sunshine. Today is beautiful for stopping illness. The media can make us anxious, but we can get away from it. We don’t need to be scared unless you know you have it or know someone with it. We don’t need run away and hide. We need to get outside […]

Terauhinga

“My cousins used to tell me when I was like only 11; they’d say “Terauhinga Terauhinga!” But I’m in front of them and they’d be behind me and they’d tap on me and they’d be like “you deaf ears”! And I thought that actually they’re teasing me? But literally, I couldn’t actually hear them. It […]

Camila

“When I was travelling, I spent three months living in a barn on an organic farm and I just fell in love with the lifestyle. Having that deeper connection with nature, slowing life down. So the yurt is pretty perfect. I like living in a more simplistic manner. I feel if I had more space, […]

Astella

“Growing up in the Philippines, we lived in a two-bedroom house that housed sometimes 30 of us at one time. My mother, being the eldest daughter, became a working girl to support her family. As you can see I’m not your typical Filipina, I’m a half-cast. I’m what you would consider a work hazard. I’ll […]

Hazel

“I’ve never owned a car. I’ve never seen the need. My principles haven’t changed since I was at school. I was always into environmental stuff, even as a kid. I was brought up on a farm and I gave my brothers what for when they learned to drive and forgot to use their legs. I […]

Ken

“I was born and bred in Christchurch. When I was twelve I was groomed and assaulted by a hospital orderly. Back in those days we had stranger danger but he wasn’t a stranger, he was nothing to the picture we were brought up as kids – a man in an overcoat and brown paper bag. […]

Abby

“I’m not your everyday widow. I don’t know what people expect. That I should just be sad; full stop. Stop living. Clearly you haven’t met me. That’s not me; it’s not what we stood for either. Andrei was diagnosed when Alice was two, with a rare form of cancer. And he fought hard. It was […]

Krissie

“I’m not a person who likes to go on committees; I like to be a doer. I’m somebody who wants to be practical; and to be kind and generous to the people that I’m meeting and interacting with in the community.  I started my “Move it or Lose it” classes for older adults  just after […]