It’s MID SEMESTER BREAK!!
Do you know what that means??
HOME TIME!
But am I really going home???
Mauri ora Whanau!
For those of you who are still at school I hope you’re making the most of holidays. For us university students we have reached the milestone of our first mid semester break 2016.
Even though it’s not actually a break (because we still have study to do) for the majority of first year students it is our first visit home…
well that’s what I initially thought
After 7 weeks living in the Great City of Auckland I begin my journey back to Taranaki for the first time.
This is when it hits me….
I am not returning home but in fact leaving home.
I never realised until it was time to pack up and leave that I had made myself fully, contently and completely at home living in Auckland.
I have lived in various different places in the past few years. Taranaki will always be where I am from, where I have grown up and where my whanau is but Auckland is now my home. I can honestly say I love life in Auckland.
I’ve been “home” (Taranaki) for almost five days now and I have not felt more homesick in my life!
I head back to Auckland tomorrow morning YAY! I cannot wait to get back! So much so I packed my bags two nights ago lol.
I am happy that I have found comfort in living at Auckland. Not only is Grafton Hall my new home. But Grafton Hall is my new family.
I may have mentioned in my first Blog how much I love the Grafton Hall atmosphere but I MUST reiterate! I miss the energy, I miss the laughs, I miss the sarcasm, I miss the petty arguments, I miss the wairua (spirit), I miss my new home and I miss my new whanau (family).
With that said, I think you get my point of this blog… I could not be more happier living in Auckland and I could not ask for a better group of people to share my uni experience with!
#GRAFTON HALL
As the saying goes “home is where the heat is” and my heart is wholeheartedly at Grafton Hall in Auckland (yes I know cliche lol).