Weekend Rugby

Bonjour, c'est encore moi !

Voici le Haka des All Blacks avec un zoom max sur mon super appareil photo. J'espère que les gens ont apprécié même s'ils n'ont pas répondu à mes sms. On avait juste un gros enfoiré derrière nous qui disait "fuck the irish" ou "they fuckin' got nothing" ou "fuck them up" ou "fuck" par ci et "fuck" par là, du coup, pour se défouler sans l'insulter ouvertement en anglais, on s'exaspérait en français mais il était chiant ! Même moi j'utilise pas autant de "putain" à la seconde ! La vidéo se trouve en fin de message. Je dois vous dire que malgré la présence de Dan Carter sur le terrain et le haka, j'étais pour l'Irlande. Juste parce que les Néo-Zélandais ont un ego surdimensionné par rapport à la finale de Coupe du Monde.

Bises,

Camille

PS : J'ai envoyé un email à notre national adviser assez fort en ce qui concerne les Maoris, comme quoi, on devrait (les assistants) avoir des cours de maoris proposés parce qu'ils sont partie intégrante de la Nouvelle-Zélande et que lorsqu'on a fait le road trip, je ne savais pas comment me comporter face à eux, et je ne savais pas comment créer le contact... Je pense que j'ai été assez directe, je vais voir ce qu'elle me répond.

Voici l'email (désolée, je ne fais pas la traduction tout de suite mais juste au cas où, si vous voulez le lire. Au cas où quelqu'un s'indigne, je tiens à préciser que ces propos n'engagent que moi) :

"Coming here, I was expecting to see some Maoris at school apart from the Maori teachers and literally be bathed in their culture. But it's far from that. We have no contact with them and when we did the road trip on the North Island, we got to meet some of them. And I felt like I wasn't welcomed and I didn't know how to behave according to their believes and customs, I didn't know how to create a contact.

I have decided to take classes but I discovered that, if I don't have a study permit, a permanent visa or if I'm not New Zealander, I can't really apply to the courses (However, the woman in charge told me to call her to see if we could find a solution to the problem). I think we should be given the opportunity to learn more about their culture and not just through the booklet we received when we applied. If found it pretty unfair to just don't care about them. They were here before us.

I might sound a bit offensive to White people and the government, maybe I shouldn't be saying that but we took everything from them and it's still going on. To my point of view, Maori culture classes should be compulsory at school (not necessarily language because you can not always be good at languages) but that's not the point.

I feel like the Language Assistants should have Maori classes, not only because I'm doing my "mémoire" on it but because, when I applied to comme here, I was expecting to have it all around me. And, I don't know how to express that but if foreigners don't get an interest in them how is it going to get better for them ? I'm sure their culture looks exotic to most tourists, that shouldn't be. They should be coming to NZ telling themselves they have to learn some basic maori because it's part of the country.