Thursday 17th February

I was meant to be on a school camp with Jesse this week. Wednesday to Friday at Motu Moana Scout Camp Blockhouse bay, with her school year 7 and 8 kids.

It is the first time I have experienced the amount of rascist discrimination that I did in such a short time there. Ok, I don’t look Maori, my te reo has fallen away over the last few years, I’ve had to learn gaelic, pijin instead, but even so, I’ve never been on a school camp that seemed to be run to an agenda that discriminated against people that weren’t maori.

I left about 2pm on the first day, there didn’t seem or appear to be anything I was needed for, I got cold shouldered out of things I could have done, in fact ignored would be a better way of putting it.

Pity, but that is how it is.

A week to go here, packing is proceeding sporadically, as in, I look at what I have left to sort, then decide to go out for a walk, a drive. This is definitely the last time I do this. I know, I said it before I went to Ireland, but that had other people involved as well with that, nutcase that she turned out to be, so at least this one is all on me.

Anyone wants to share with me after this, I’m not moving.

And you’d better like dogs.

Here are a few pics of what we were doing for the morning there anyway. The kids were having a great time, flying fox was the big treat, the girls decided to try to touch the tyres at the stop, so they were really pumping the wire on the way down, most of them managed to swing high enough on the stop to touch the stop buffers.

Just had a phone call from Damian, the school rang and asked where I was, along with 3 other parents who also walked out and never returned for the same reason. And from what Damian said, it isn't the first time this has happened on a school camp with the same teachers. Considering there were only 4 parents there, for all of us to leave and not go back, I think there are some problems with attitudes, and policy.

As I said to Damian, if Stanmore Bay had done the same thing to any parent on any of the school camps they had, I would have pulled all 3 of them out of the school and found another one, regardless of friends etc. I hope my grand kids do not grow up with the attitude I saw at this school.