Last Week at MTS - Nga Mahi Wheako

Kia ora koutou katoa,

e hari ahau e tata mai mutu te ra, te wiki, te wahanga wheako i roto i te tari matauranga Te Kaea. Ae, e tika nga awangawanga, nga pouri ake kanohi heoi nga kanohi tino puku kaimahi, ara, Potaka Maipi raua ko Lynette Amoroa, nga tino mana o te ao papaho Maori. Me nga kaipapaho ara Tamati Teananga, Rahia Timutimu me taku hoa a Heeni Brown. They're all younger than me xcept mayb PM who are all up in the whare, they're not Nga Puhi but hei aha! They're all kei roto in the whare fierce and fabulous, doing it fast, doing it fabulously.

The reality is that this is a art, doing the mahi that you best enjoy sure makes the day go faster. You ddon't even realise that the seconds fade into days into night bullys (bulletins) then into weeks. But if you enjoy your mahi you don't even count the time, you don't have a watch all you know is your deadline and when lunch is that is when your tummy won't shut up from being so hungry. So man yeh that b mean as.

AND IF YOU're wandering where all the vids are and all the pictures well there are none simply because I don't have any on me and the other thing is too I don't think my mates in the whare don't like having their picture taken by a student despite the age I am and the rest, so yeah its a very private world, what you get is what you get. So I'll have to leave you with my version of the events instead, but all good, you can get the gist of what I'm saying.

What have I learnt this week. Humble as, respect mana and whakarongo. I know this much don't look 2 keen because if you all dat then 4 sure they may get their back up. If you are as good as what they think you maybe they're not quite sure how to take you because you are actually a threat to their very well being. So I'm very glad how things have worked out. People are starting to really encompass this whole student thing. At first they weren't too welcoming because oh horha u no they just student whakaaro ne way, i know and would probably feel the same way if I was the be all bees knees to papaho maori, neway I been in enough sports teams to get the gist when you're not really wanted around this whare. but being helpful and having a cheerful disposition helps them to help you and lets their guards down to oh well we better give these girls some mahi to do. This week we've been leaving later, well I have and I have started to enjoy the length of my days and really appreciate how much mahi they put into these nightly bulletins. As I've left each day the same people seem to be sitting in their same positions as I'd left them the day before just with different clothes on. I wander if they've eaten let alone seen their family, they probably don't even have family. Well who knows.
The thing that matters most though in this office is if you're seen to be putting in the mahi, being supportive but also being on the ball, it requires self sufficiency as well as all the other things that KT mentions its a good cross between sharp witted, sharp thinking, sharp writing and speaking skills. They're a tight bunch in here aye and if you are on the ball I'd say you would probably be not far off this bunch in here too, sharp 2 toungue speakers with networks, yep baby like they say or so Tamaki Makaurau Maori netball president says or Erina Wikaere says "FAke it until you Make it". Sounds like pearls of wisdom though I actually wouldn't live by that phrase myself. It to me sounds very shallow but hey if you want to do well I suppose that would be an indication to some people that you have made it. But life just doesn't happen that way. You do at some point have to put the mahi.
Appreciation today would be a significant whakaaro knowing that behind each breath is a story, a story line a pictured that has all been selected so carefully to be timed with layers of voice overs karanga tikanga powhiri and each tap puts together a small short story that tells a power and shows a powerful story. What a lovely thing to contribute to everyday. It's breathtaking, breathtaking not just the storyline the pictures but when you see it all come together you wonder how they do it. You soon start appreciating it alot more than what you hear and what you see at between 7.30pm and 8pm every night. It certainly is heaps of work, blood sweat and tears. And, probably for me more tears and hair pulling with sighs of relief. What accomplishments and what an achievement to be a apart of this awesome opportunity. I'm so humbled by the mahi of these kairipoata. They're amazing people.
Yep I like the fact that I get to talk about my favourite sports stars and I'm always amazed by the fact that some body knows some blinkin super star. I couldn't believe that PM was talking to my idol Liam Meesam and the fact they all seem to know about the celebrities and who is really gay and who is not! But hey, I'm not here for that so I don't really listen, although I do note most of the korero. I might not look like I'm listening but passively I am and I don't really care but when you start throwing around korero who has Rico Gear's number or who has so and so's number you can't help but listen. If I had Rico's number I probably wouldn't be sharing it either. So yes, keep you lil black books private because if you have someone's number is this by accident. Who knows! I wonder how celebrity columns start. And no I don't envisage having a column, I'd be no good at it anyway. Though you could probably put one of those cams up in the office at TK and could listen to some good gossip, not thaty I'm saying this has happened. The sports team have really made me feel welcome and I don't know how to say thanks to all of them. I would like to take a cake in to show them my appreciation, but I think muscle chowder would probably be the better go! yeh man that would be mean as. Well I'll think about it.
Today I worked alongside TA and she has some mean confidence, but quietly she knows where it is at aye! Really confident without it being confident but just getting the mahi done. Her experience comes through and it has taken nearly the two weeks for her to feel comfortable about letting that off to us but I'm happy as to have her help me to move things along. I haven't seen everything she does but it is so awesome to be alongside with her and I funnily think that she has a small sense of respect for me hence why she's given me some mahi in the editing suite's maybe, she was just swinging them off to AA this week and last week. I practised hard out on my korero and it would have been alright for Rahia and Heeni but LA was just thinking it be quicker for her to do it which I thought was all cool anyway. So yes it was a abit daunting because we hadn't really practised the voice eloquently executing kupu, of which I thought I was very good, but at the best of times mate it is still hard. Even when it sounds like and thinks like you're confident, you have got to be so confident and 100% squeaky! To just bowl on up and get it layered. The help and tips from LA though is so important and I know too she won't be as positive to you like that for nothing. If she thinks you're worth telling she'll help you, but if you don't help her she doesn't think you're worth her time she'll just go quiet and not even bother talking to you and looking at you, so I was really happy to be working alongside LA. For now though I think I've done enough mahi to help put Manukau MiTe on the map. Hopefully they have experienced many a positive thing in us beign their to help them out too.
yeh bro Self confidence is a powerful thing certainly knowing your strengths and knowing how to dig deep and knowing the keys to propel you forward to the next level.
"One important key to success is self-confidence. A key to self-confidence is preparation." - Arthur Ashe. I think this whakatauki pretty much sums it up for me aye. Practise makes perfect each time. This is an athletes only whakaaro is to keep soildering on, because they have everything else down pat, so it's about crossing yourt's its about dotting your i's but at the end of the day are you prepared for the options.