Dane Archery

hit first we ask questions later you protect the woman in your family and your family name you know what i mean i'm coming here like we're but that's just the mindset we were coming from and then you came here and my parents couldn't compute the teacher saying no doesn't matter what happens they're like what do you mean doesn't matter what happens

That's a crazy thing to say, isn't it?

Yeah.

But I think it's not that we don't check people in New Zealand, right?

But as a South African, we're very slow with our words but quick with our hands.

You know, and it's seen as a positive thing.

And it's the same thing with like farmer types, right?

Living down here in the Southland.

Men don't talk about what they're upset with, but then you just find out, wow, I never see that guy anymore.

Which is probably better removing yourself than smacking them, you know what I mean?

But those adjustments were huge to make for us.

And then Epsom didn't work for that.

So we moved to Roscoe.

And...

inner city suburbs like Mount Roskill just fitted just about perfectly.

And then my dad got a job, or my mum got a job, sorry, in East Auckland.

We moved to Panmure, went to Edgewater College where I started college.

Edgewater was a school in Pakuranga, but students all bussing in from South Auckland.

You know, it was a rough school, bit of this, bit of that.

The next year I moved to Pakuranga College and then from Pakuranga College got a sports scholarship out to Mags, man.