Sheeba | New Lynn, Auckland

“When I first came to high school. I was really shy, and insecure about myself, because that was the second year I moved into New Zealand, and people kind of took advantage of it and bullied me and stuff, but that actually really taught me how to be confident, and know myself a little bit more.

I’m still in high school. The last year of high school, but throughout the five years of my schooling the one thing I learnt is just be yourself. No matter what, you just got to be yourself. People might say whatever, but they’re just someone you don’t know, and they’re just a phase in your life. You just have to be yourself and try to fight through it.

I mean, it wasn’t that much. Just little bits and pieces here and there in Year 9. It’s just that age, I guess. I’ve never really felt discrimination in New Zealand. It was very supportive, but at the same time, there was a little bit of racism here and there, but it doesn’t really matter. 

I really want to do med-schooling in Auckland Uni, or AUT nursing. It just depends on whatever I get accepted into I guess.

I was born in India, and I came here to New Zealand when I was 12 with my family.”

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