Food glorious food.
- By Angeline Greensill
- Published 25/07/2008
Kia ora koutou.
My last blog. Yeah! Tenei te mihi nui rawa atu kia koutou WSU. Thank you for letting me participate in such an innovative activity. What better way to make politicians empathise with the issues that students deal with then to have us ‘live like a student” . I just can't wait to start getting into some real food again.
My highlights:
It’s been a long, event filled week, and one that I will remember for some time. I enjoyed the challenge but I am broke. Probably $25.00 in debt, but today’s pay day so everything is ok. Once againMoira and WSU thanks for the opportunity to live like a student. I tried. The experience caused me to reflect on my own tertiary education and to sympathise once again with today’s students who are trying to complete degrees. My advice is stay focused, eat as well as you can, work hard, ask questions, make sure you use whatever student support is available, surround yourself with supportive friends, and go hard.
My last blog. Yeah! Tenei te mihi nui rawa atu kia koutou WSU. Thank you for letting me participate in such an innovative activity. What better way to make politicians empathise with the issues that students deal with then to have us ‘live like a student” . I just can't wait to start getting into some real food again.
My highlights:
- Catching up with ex Waikato Students, reflecting on their student days and celebrating their achievements. eg Potaua and the launching of Google Maori yesterday.
- Generous people willing to share their food with a poor student. Thank goodness there is still aroha in the world. I have heard it said that there is no such thing as a free feed, but I’d dispute that. That’s how some students survive the week. It is a common practice in my whanau to offer food to visitors, because at some future date the visitors will reciprocate.
- Finding out that all beer fridges in student flats don’t necessarily contain booze. The boys fridge contained healthy balanced meals that they had cooked themselves. No fast foods or high carb diets in sight
- Dealing with Study link over course-related fees.
- Student pack food - I certainly don’t want to go back to living on noodles, baked beans and weetbix.
- Unexpected expenses like breaking the window catch on the van and having to use an overdraft to pay it off.
- Walking to save money during wet and cold weather.
- Always having to check my budget
- That I can almost survive on $250 per week but choices of what to eat, where to go and what to buy are limited.
- That many students today aren’t valued by the State for seeking a tertiary education i.e. they are committed to getting educated, struggle to make ends meet, and often end up with a degree plus thousands of $$ worth of debt. What a future!!
- Blogging. Through this challenge I have learned how to blog but I need to learn to write a couple of succinct paragraphs instead of mini essays.
It’s been a long, event filled week, and one that I will remember for some time. I enjoyed the challenge but I am broke. Probably $25.00 in debt, but today’s pay day so everything is ok. Once againMoira and WSU thanks for the opportunity to live like a student. I tried. The experience caused me to reflect on my own tertiary education and to sympathise once again with today’s students who are trying to complete degrees. My advice is stay focused, eat as well as you can, work hard, ask questions, make sure you use whatever student support is available, surround yourself with supportive friends, and go hard.
