For my Matariki moment was I made fry bread n takakau bread for all 30+ colleagues at my mahi their nationalities range from Spanish Kurdish, Burundi, Iraqi, Somali, Chinese, Korean,Fijian,English n Maori, it was awesome n we had i t with real butter n jams they loved it n all wanted to know how i made it so i showed them. Matariki is always exciting n sharing our culture with my colleagues just makes me feel so special n Proud to be maori. We also watched a maramataka webinar by Mini Keita Tibble n during the webiner we ate popcorn. Then we went to do karakia at the tree that we planted at work in memorial of our maori colleague that passed away last year in September. We hung matariki stars on her tree n sang her a waiata. We then went to the lunch room to enjoy a shared afternoon tea. I feel so lucky also to have awesome supportive colleagues at my mahi n feel so blessed to be able to share with them we often have waiata practice.

Matariki for my whanau we took our son(13)n our moko (18 mnths) to Orakei marae manu Kite day n just love being there on the reserve n watching all the kites the kids loved it running around flying their kites. This saturday we are going to go to Glenn Innes they have a matariki celebration for all go enjoy from 6-9pm n fireworks to enjoy for the finale evening.