Hung | Papatoetoe

I’ll probably say around, say a week ago, and that would just have to be with my grade at university.

It wasn’t really much of a anger towards other people, but anger and disappointments towards myself where I, I wanted to achieve a grade which I didn’t get, and that was only due to my fault in studying, and not any external factors.

Probably it would be my first year at uni, so I want to try my best to succeed in that first year, because I know personally if I don’t do very well in that first year, then there’s really no point in me carrying on over to the next year.  

I probably deal with it just talking to other people, or just meditating, just reflecting on what is it that happened, and how it can, how we can prevent it in the future.

That’s really hard, because anger within our community could be a root for different things. For example, racism or people living in poverty, and how you have different classes, but what I think is really helpful is making that awareness that, anger or whatever type of issue it is, there’s more to it than what you see on the outside.  For example, if someone’s feeling anger, it doesn’t necessarily have to be with them itself; it could be what’s happening behind the scenes, and yeah, just getting that support.

I grew up here in Papatoetoe, and what’s important to me is that family connection. Because I do health science at the University of Auckland, we learn a lot about the population and how not having that infrastructure can lead to you being in a really dark place. So, just having people around you to support you really, gets a brighter future for you. What I define home is somewhere where you have family to look after you. So, it doesn’t necessarily have to be like a house; just somewhere you feel comfortable.”  

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