I've returned to Aotearoa after living in Australia for 20 years and I'm amazed at how Te Reo Maori is being so widely embraced. I'm 57 and have grown up largely ignorant of this beautiful language and culture that's right on my doorstep, yet I understand so little of it. We are one nation and I have as much responsibility to understand the Tangata Whenua as I have expected of them. I'm very new to the language, but I'm loving the journey.