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MeMe – 7 things about me
February 24th, 2009 by mrstetupu
Okay so I have been tagged by Mandy (aka HeyMilly) and DigitalLearning to take on the challenge of writing 7 great things about myself MeMe – seven!!! Okay, so here goes…
1. I am an active Christian
I became a Christian when I was 15 years old and have been actively involved in church since. I currently attend a church called “His International Mission” in Glen Innes where my husband and I lead the music team. Things kind of spiraled out of control a bit for me when I became a teenager and finding faith in God helped me overcome some huge hurdles in my life and built character within me that made me who I am today – by no means perfect…. just a product of God’s grace 
2. I am a self-proclaimed “cougar”
Yip – I am married to a man younger than me. I mean I’m no Demi Moore going for someone half my age, but my husband is a beautiful Cook Island man who is three years my junior. We met about 8 years ago at my church and were friends for a couple of years before we started dating. We have been married for 3 and a half years now and I still wake up every day and think “wow”. Strangely enough everyone always thinks he’s the older one out of the two of us… I justify it by saying it’s because I look younger…. which leads me to number 3…
3. I am a “coastie”
I was born in Gisborne and brought up in Tolaga Bay. A beautiful beach-side community about 45 mins north of Gisborne on the East Coast of the North Island. If you have never been there you need to go and visit! The beaches are amazing, the scenery is gorgeous and the people are wonderful. In fact if you do go down that way stop in at Uawa Foodmarket and ask for Aunty Dolly and tell her I said Hi! I loved growing up in this majority Maori community. I was exposed to Te Reo Maori from a young age and learnt a lot about Tikanga Maori. I lived on a farm and wore gumboots to school in the winter and bare feet to school in the summer. I got to climb trees, throw cow poo at my brothers and sisters, swim every day in the summer time and roam about the country-side. I was also flown out by helicopter during Cyclone Bola in 1988 and remember seeing families sitting on the roofs of their houses waiting to be rescued. Click on the picture below to take you to a website with stunning photos like this one called “davidwallphoto.com”.
4. I love music
I only wish I could be better at it! I have been singing since the day I was old enough to talk (and trust me I started talking young). I used to go to “Country and Western” club every Wednesday night with my older sister and a friend of my mum’s. We would always ask the band to sing songs that totally weren’t country, but being the great guys that they were they would use that Coastie talent to play along anyway. I still sing today and lead our church band with my husband. I love it! Unfortunately I’m not as talented when it comes to playing instruments. Twinkle twinkle little star and chopsticks are my piano hits and I can play drums on “World Tour Guitar Hero”…. if it’s set to beginner and I have a couple of go’s at the song. I play guitar for my kids at school and that’s about the extent of it!!!
5. I come from a big family
I have two brothers and two sisters. My mum comes from a family of 8 children and my dad comes from a family of 13 children (some are half brothers and sisters). During family Christmas’s on my mums side of the family all 8 families would rock up to my grandparent’s modest 3 bedroom home. Oh did I mention they had 23 grandchildren at the time too…. do the math!!! It was so much fun though – the rule was first in first served when it came to sleeping arrangements, and at night the hallway and lounge would be lined with kids. I remember one time my grandad found his side of the bed occupied and had the sleep in the last available spot – underneath the pool table!!! Apparently the bath tub had already been claimed!! As for my two brothers and sisters… well once we all had a friend or two over there was never a shortage of people to play with or things to do.
6. I am a doting aunty
Sorry to copy one of your ideas Mandy, but it’s gotta be said… I just adore my nephew Connor! He is the first and only grandchild on my side of the family and in the words of my sister “he’s perfect”. 9.8lbs at birth he is now 15 weeks old and a few hundred grams off being as heavy as a sack of potatoes! I mean… take a look at him…. do I even need to say any more???
7. I bake
Growing up I was the kid you hated to have in the kitchen. In fact I managed to set the oven on fire a couple of times trying to cook things. Thankfully that phase of my life wore off and now I’m actually pretty good at baking. The thing people seem to enjoy the most is my carrot cake – it seems pretty average to me, but everyone always seems to go on about how good it is. I love making birthday cakes particularly for kids birthday parties. I have made castles, motorbikes, fork hoists, cars and even Bob the Builder. Just please don’t ask me to make wedding cakes. I’ve made a few, but my husband will tell you that the stress that goes along with it is almost unbearable!
Phew!!! All done. Seven things about me… so now it’s my turn to tag people….
Linda
Catherine
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on February 25th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
What a fabulous meme – I want to go to Tolaga now!!
I have to argue that you ARE actually AMAZING at music and playing the guitar. Your voice, when you sing, stops the whole school in it’s tracks! That is itself is amazing.. and of course i’ll argue with you that my nephew is cuter ;p
on March 24th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
After reading this I am shaking my head and trying to figure how you can drive out of this suburb to go to work
Spent some wonderful days in Uawa last year when Russell and I went down to the Ngati awards. Such talented and warm people down there and with an amazing environment. We took far too many photos…
Dorothy