{"id":8033,"date":"2017-05-03T06:05:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T10:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=8033"},"modified":"2019-07-15T17:48:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T17:48:34","slug":"otago-march-17th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2017\/05\/03\/otago-march-17th\/","title":{"rendered":"Otago March 17th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kia Ora whanau! (Hello family!)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKia ora whanau\u201d is a common greeting here in Aotearoa, even the professors say it. I\u2019m slowly but surely picking up on all of the New Zealand slang. \u201cYou\u2019re alright\u201d is translated into \u201cYou\u2019re welcome and \u201cKa pai\u201d is a common Maori phrase, meaning \u201cunderstand\u201d, \u201cok\u201d or \u201cgood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Classes are going well. There are 200 students in my Maori society paper, which is the most students I have ever had in a college course. At Rollins, student count per class usually doesn\u2019t exceed 25. This has been the biggest change I have come to get used to here in the academic realm. However, it is very easy to get one-on-one time with your lecturers if you need to meet with them.<\/p>\n<p>The University has an incredible museum. There are no entrance fees and it is a 2 minute walk from the main campus. There is a massive Polynesian and Maori exhibit. I have no class on Fridays, so this past Friday I spent my day at the museum. In the Pacific Island exhibit I found a traditional waka (fishing canoe) from Rarotonga. This was really cool from me because Rarotonga is where my dad was born!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_9019-300x169.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15209 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_9019-300x169-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rarotongan Waka<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_9034-225x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15210 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_9034-225x300-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Traditional Cook Island fishing and hunting hooks<\/p>\n<p>Maori culture is very rich at Otago. The museum introduces Maori culture and customs with Maori carvings and marae (sacred meeting house).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_9109-169x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15211 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_9109-169x300-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Papatuanuku and Rangi- Gods of earth and sky<\/p>\n<p>As a Maori who grew up away from Aotearoa, I never got to hear te reo (Maori language) being spoken by anyone else other than my dad. One of my goals here is to pick up on the language, enough to have a decent conversation with my dad when I see him next. I\u2019ve learned how precious the Maori culture is and how delicate it is. I have grown to have such a deeper appreciation for my culture and people. Daily, not only am I discovering places of Dunedin but my roots, my history and myself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_9122-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15212 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_9122-300x225-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marae model<\/p>\n<p>Ka kite!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kia Ora whanau! (Hello family!) \u201cKia ora whanau\u201d is a common greeting here in Aotearoa, even the professors say it. I\u2019m slowly but surely picking up on all of the New Zealand slang. \u201cYou\u2019re alright\u201d is translated into \u201cYou\u2019re welcome and \u201cKa pai\u201d is a common Maori phrase, meaning \u201cunderstand\u201d, \u201cok\u201d or \u201cgood.\u201d Classes are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-otago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15213,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033\/revisions\/15213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}