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Your Mom Goes To College by Mommyish and Wildheart Designs
CCM July 2017 Styles by Mommyish
Perdiem by Sara Gleason
Folio by Sara Gleason
New Beginnings by Pink Reptile Designs
Storyteller August 2017 by Just Jaimee
Storyteller August 2016 styles by Just Jaimee
Storyteller March 2018 by Just Jaimee
This Year by Allison Pennington

Five years ago I faced this building for the first time as an official student at the Faculty of Education at The University of Auckland. I was full of nerves but excitement at the same time as I knew I would love it here after my initial visit before applying as well as when I came back earlier in the year for an interview with the programme director. My first class was 9 am on Monday 4th March 2013 - Disability and Support with seven or eight others. My first thought was yay, a small class, this should be good. We very quickly bonded and became firm friends though some were only doing studies part time so wouldn’t see them all the time. I specifically bonded with Bronwyn and we became each others support network as we were going to both be full time students. Meeting the lecturer, Debbie, I also found an instant connection and she became one of my favourite lecturers, not just because of her personality but her lectures were interesting, her assignments were fun to do and I could really challenge my ideas with her fairly open ended assignments - for one assignment I interviewed people with disabilities to inform my thinking around the topic that I could then marry with the literature I found - I often had to be creative with my disability assignments as literature was pretty thin on the ground to start with and usually no or very little literature or research based on New Zealand context.