Taz | Glen Innes
“Well, since I’ve heard about it, it kind of makes me insecure about reality.
It’s kind of life-threatening for me as a mother, to let my kids go to school and it’s hard for me to kind of focus whether they should be at school due to so many threats and. I wouldn’t want to put myself nor anybody or my kids mainly into risk of, harm or danger, and I feel things like this shouldn’t be happening. You know? We, we’re all one, as we should be. We are all one kind of family. You know? It is really hard to see what’s happening to our Christchurch, and what could or couldn’t happen in the future, whether it could get worse or not.
For me personally, I would say, not everybody is against Muslims. Things that are happening now, I feel for them. I really do feel for them. If I could put myself in their shoes, I would know exactly how scared I would be to actually be them, but I would say, everybody, isn’t against Muslims. I personally don’t think anything bad about them. They’re just like me. We’re, we’re just ordinary people living life, and trying to do right for ourselves, and I would say I will support them as much as I can. If I have to, I would put myself out there just to get it around to let them know that they shouldn’t be afraid. You know? We all share the same things in life. Trying to build better futures for ourselves and also our kids and families, and so why shouldn’t they be able to do that, and not feel, they shouldn’t have to be scared of doing things for themselves, and I do feel for them.
What, what happened in Christchurch shouldn’t have happened, and I just hope that they’re all okay. I have Muslim friends. I have shopkeeper friends that are Muslims. I love them. They’re really good to me, so you know, I only treat them the way they would treat me, and there’s nothing wrong with them. They’re just family to us.
I was born in New Zealand. Middlemore Hospital. I was born and raised in Mt Wellington/Glen Innes. I didn’t really have a good background for myself, because I chose to go that way, but I fell into drugs and alcohol, hanging around with some bad people, and then I fell into the wrong relationship, fell pregnant, which made me a mother at the time. Now I am a mother of three, but only currently have one in my care. I love life. I really want to go back home to the Cook Islands, is where I’m from. I’m a really insecure person about travelling or anything. You know? I’d just rather be on land and just do well for my kids, and bring them up in a different way that I, I have brought myself up in.”
