Sabry

I’m originally from Egypt. My wife is Filipino, she got a job offer as a nurse. Then I decided to come to visit. So I visited, but I never went back. I just like the environment, like the people. We came here, maybe, in 2005. I come from an Arabic background, so of course, the […]

Tarryn

It’s only since I’ve been in my 30s that I’ve had proper conversations about being Māori. I started to question all of that stuff when I moved away. I left New Zealand just before I turned 19. I went to Australia for a few years, to the UK for a couple of years, then back […]

Raviv – Part 2

Sarah (ranger) came to me last year and said, Look, we have these health and safety boards, would you like one? I said, Yeah, that will be lovely, but what about one in te reo Māori? She gave me the one in English, and about three months later, she comes to me, here it is […]

Jonty

“When I was five, my family left England on a boat, and over the next three years, we sailed around the world before arriving in New Zealand. We checked out all these awesome locations, the Galapagos Islands, Palmerston Atoll, Trinidad & Tobago, Panama Canal. Alongside that, we had all these books about animals. Travelling with […]