Leap off the EDGE!

Mauri ora ki a koutou katoa!

I had a hui (meeting) with Steph Rotarangi this morning from 10-11:15am odd to discuss some aspects of her PhD - you remember her from a couple of posts ago --- anyway, i bumped into one of her supervisors last week on Monday who suggested (with some insistence from Lorraine) that i become her (Steph's) cultural supervisor - loosely of course

So, we sat and had a korero (talk)with our bottles of water. Just to regurgitate: the idea is to get her ready to leap off the edge:- it was Ray Bradbury that said -

"First you jump
& you build your wings
on the way down"

• Start a BLOG - create a profile for you - one which we can get out to the community
• Your supervisors can check in on your progress whilst they are in the field
• I can pop in and check up on you (i will subscribe to your blog)
• You can get your "profile" out to the community
  
• Your First Post: should cover you & your family & perhaps your journey to the point where you took a leap into the abyss known as the PhD
• Your Second Post: Your background, your CV, your professional development, your academic journey
  
• Your Third Post: Talk about why you are doing your PhD - the korero you & i had this morning about how the timing & circumstances just fell into place for you -
  
• look at your proposal - & the burning questions that urged you towards applying for a PhD (take a look at your proposal for FoRST)
  

• Your Fourth Post: how about some background to your thoughts on the Forestry industry? Lets develop your thinking around a framework?
  

• Then we can take it from there - but lets find your voice & develop that so that our people get a sense of who you are as a person first, before they get an idea of who your are as an academic

Apart from that:

• Go for a hikoi across Tongariro with your whanau
  
• Pick yourself up a rock and bring it home for you
• Get yourself a Rewana bug
• learn to keep it alive during the duration of you PhD
• Get yourself a Native Tree and look after it

ps: i will get an email off to Tia

Hei kona
H24