Tena koutou,




The wait is over all pens to the ready, we're off!



The first week of orientation has passed and we're into the serious aspects of college life now, like study. We have had some really great tutorials around academic study and I am privileged to have some of the colleges high achieves close by "cracked it" heaps of clever people to ask how to do things.




The orientation programme has seen us cover a number areas and as I mentioned the tutorials have been invaluable especially for those of us who haven't done any study for awhile. College life in general is good being around like mind people is great I would liken college to that of a rumaki reo, your submerged in it and you can't help but swim especially with the amount of support you get. The level of academic knowledge here is very impressive they have doctors, masters, theologians and people with more letters behind their names then I've had hot breakfast, seriously these people are clever.


We have been going to church out south to St Lukes a nice little place whanau oriented. I haven't been there long and have been given a few duties to do already. The second week they asked me to do the kauwhau and last week I led, what a blessing for me to be able to keep building on what I've been already taught, nothing next week though as we are off on our hikoi Friday heading down to Taranaki for a few days to learn about church history down there should be cool.



Additionally I have mapped out my study plans for the first simester and have decided to get a few of the Anglican Study Programme dipolma papers out of the way. This will complete half of the required dipolma compotent of my study here then looking at the second half in the second semister just to get that completed.



The boys are doing well in their schooling and Sonya has two day work in town and is at home being a mum for the rest of the week. We aint rich financially, but we're loaded in other ways. You'll have to come here to find out what I mean. We are all still abit home sick but I'm sure in time that will pass, sometimes you're to busy to be anything but busy.

Any way whanau ma te wa,