Mairangi Notes #9 — 2026.06.07

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2026.06.07

Yussi's Note

A House of Four Women

While Penny is away in Korea for a little while, the four of us are settling into the long early-winter nights. We sit down to a warm dinner early each evening, and on weekends the girls make sweet things. Every day we share our hours with Dad through a screen, each of us getting on with what's ours to do, in our own corner of the house. As the longing deepens like the night, we wait for the day we're all together again.

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Lunch Box

MON

Tomato Meatball Pasta & Matang

Lunch was tomato fusilli with Ikea meatballs, finished with a sprinkle of parsley. For morning tea, matang — a traditional Korean treat made by cutting kumara into bite-sized pieces, frying them, and coating them in syrup.

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Campus Notes

TUE

On the mid-year break

Massey University has now entered its short mid-winter break. The first semester's classes have wrapped up, and postgraduate students — myself among them, with placement and a thesis still ahead — are catching their breath, as are the undergraduates pausing partway through a journey they've run so hard. It's a time to lace the trainers back up and get ready to run again. Here's hoping everyone makes the most of this short rest while it lasts.

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English with Jin

This Week's Expression

“I'm happy for you.”

Every time we go grocery shopping, Jin asks for two chocolate milks — one for herself, and one for when her best friend comes over. For her birthday necklace, she chose a set so she could share with her friends. She's learning to share not just things, but happiness too. So when something good happens for a friend, we say, "I'm happy for you." Because when you smile, I smile too.

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Local Guide

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Community

Yarnsational Market

The Yarnsational Market is a winter market held on Saturday 13 June in the Main Hall of Te Atatu Peninsula Community Centre (595 Te Atatu Road), bringing together local stalls of handmade crafts, knitting, crochet, and sewing. Held to coincide with Worldwide Knit in Public Day and National Sewing Machine Day, it's a celebration of all things handmade, with children welcome and market DJ music to browse along to.
📍 595 Te Atatu Road, Te Atatu Peninsula, Auckland 0610

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Holidays

Matariki Festival

A heads-up for whānau new to Aotearoa: Matariki, the Māori New Year, is a public holiday on Friday 10 July — schools and banks closed. Auckland's festival runs 4–19 July (theme Matariki ki te Rangi); a mostly-free programme is rolling out now at matarikifestival.org.nz. Mark the long weekend; North Shore picks to come.

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From the Archive

Little 15 Mins

Being the only one

Five months before school, we gave our youngest something she'd never had — time at the centre of our world. A family decision backed by research.

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