Niu FM's new weekends host shares what it was like to grow up in a community that didn't understand Pacific culture. Ah-Young, who is one of the new co-hosts on Nui Weekends, went to primary school at Adventure School in the affluent suburb of Whitby in Porirua. She recalls feeling isolated because children didn’t want to play with her, explaining she seemed too different to fit in. I got the confidence that I needed and the reassurance needed, when I moved to South Auckland Seventh Day Adventist school. “It wasn’t all perfect, when I first started I was referred to as plastic, because ‘you don’t understand’ or ‘you speak a little different’.

Source: Stuff November 08, 2023 09:20 UTC