My - Future Aspiration Writing

On Wednesday the Intermediate block had a special presentation about our future aspiration. There were special visitors coming by to show us what they have been doing in the past and advice that can help us in the future. Their names are “Paula Fakalata, Anthony Samuels, Andrew Patterson, and Amelia Unufe.  

When they made their way into the door we sang a little Waiata, to them and our Mihi and Karakia. Andrew Patterson was the presenter of introducing them to the front and repeating the key things of they have told us, just checking if we remember.

“First up to show and tell us what they have done in the future and how it turned them into a better person is Anthony Samuels”. Anthony Samuels told us a little key thing that will help us is “your past does not have to determine your future”. Do you know what To Miharo Hoki mean in English? It mean “you are amazing”. He also showed us a short video of other people who changed and didn’t let the past determine their future.

Paula Fakalata was up next. He wasn't’t scared of what we do to strive and succeed, but he was scared of us not giving things a try. He was a professional swimmer and he would always win every single competition. But this one time he was swimming and he was reaching for the ground because of his height but he couldn't find it, so something bad happened. “And he was drowning in the water he stopped breathing and his mum was crying, so the lifeguard dived into the water and let him out of the water and started pushing onto his heart. Trying to bring him back, so a while later it worked. He spat out a lot of water and all his friends were laughing at him. He felt so shy and embarrassed in himself.

He never went into the water for a very long time, but suddenly one day he realized that “it doesn't matter if one mistake had happened in the water, and it won’t stop me from doing something that I love to do”. He continued swimming and he recognised that he actually had a lot of fun doing it too. He told us his secret for how he kept winning it was because he would always get the middle and he would put his feet down onto the ground because of his height. That is how he would always win the race