Over the past month at Auckland Museum, a free exhibition was put together in order to re-discuss the controversies that were presented before the passing of the Military Service Act of 1916. My history teacher was the one who pointed me in the direction to this exhibition and so one weekend, I found myself attending this exhibition. It’s called “A Case for Conscription”  and what I witnessed was a reenactment debate on the issues of whether or not Maori should be conscripted and whether or...

Ok so first of all, to explain the title: It's been over 3 weeks since I finally figured out what I'd like the topic for my project to be about but I never got around to posting about it because it was a double up as one of my history assessments. So forgive me, but I had to focus on that. BUT my untimely array of school obligations did not end there. Oh no it did not “=_= because following that, I had to prepare for preliminary exams which is this week, AKA just a stepping stone away from...

Well, waking up at 5am in the morning was something I did genuinely have a build up of nervous energy for. (Sue me, I like to sleep in on Saturdays). But other than that, I shouldn’t have been worried about anything really. Dreading the part where I go home, asking myself whether or not I wanted to really commit to this project was plain idiotic. I have never been part of a project of such a large scale so of course I was getting cold feet about it, however by the end of the day, I realised...