 Kia ora. Mainei maenai Ngone Hoipa, aie itia lika maersiai ka ma satia. Aimei i inkaldia i kainatatama i Wachlin i Wachlin kai anha. Aimei i kainatatama i Wachlin, i atenda te Kukalapa Māori Orua Matā, ka maazium i maazium maordia. Aimei i kainata para maisula i kainata para mazi. Wachlin mumsiai mazio mazi, kia mazio mazio mazi, maiziai i kainata para maiziai i kainata para mazio. Aimei i kainata para mazio mazio mazio. I've been paddling Waqama competitively since I was little and I never would have imagined that coming to university to study, I'd be able to continue my competitive drive in Waqama. But the facilities here and the sports programs they have here have provided me with that opportunity. In fact, they've even provided me three trips to Hawaii to compete in Waqama. I'm a member of the South Pacific Indigenous Engineering Students Association, which is called SPIS, and I've made so many friends there who share the same drive as me doing engineering to give back to their communities from which they came. Not only that, my friends have also made university life just a little bit more fun for me. I've been at the University of Auckland for five years now and in that time I've recognised the burning and growing desire for all the faculties of the engineering department and the civil department especially to engage more with Māori and Pacific students. I chose to come to the University of Auckland because it offered the very best engineering degree in New Zealand and that was confirmed when my employers actually told me that I was put on the top of the waiting list simply because I came from the University of Auckland. One day I wished to become involved in Māori societal enhancement from a professional engineering project management background. I can help facilitate sustainable change in this field of engineering for the betterment of Māori people.