My mum was a Kiwi who moved to Australia when she was 24. When I was 24, I moved to NZ, and discovered a big family, many of them Maori people who speak te reo. I want to honour them and this country that I now call home. I am currently in quarantine in Auckland, waiting to be reunited with friends and family after four years in Spain. As I landed at Auckland Airport, I started to sing Welcome Home, by Dave Dobbyn: There's a woman with her hands trembling...Haere mai. When that first person said Kia ora to me, I knew I was home.x
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