Rangi Pou - Guest Speaker
35 mins of Rangi talking about his
experiences with drug addiction, choices he made at school; working hard; being clean 5 years getting ill (had a stroke - 6 months in recovery); relapse into drug use again.
Interacted with students asking what
they would like to do when they finish school. Rangi said a lot of inspiring quotes that related to the choices he made in life - how they could affect the year 9's.
"It's hard when you don't
know what you want to do - you have no direction"
"Sometimes life throws a brick at
you..." unfortunately he never finished this quote!
5 years of being clean and he went back
to old bad-habits. Best mate used meth for 10 + years and then committed
suicide. This affected him badly and he used drugs heavily again. Rangi considered taking his life - shaken coke bottle analogy about pressure - How do you open
it?
Rangi's advice was to talk to someone about how you're feeling, especially when you're feeling low - deep down people want help - talk little bit by little bit and let the
pressure out.
Rangi sang/rapped a really inspiring song he
wrote about the suicide of his best mate. His lyrics were very confronting about his drug use and friendships.
I think this guy was really great inspiration to some of the students and hopefully he resonated with the way they think, or the choices they are currently making in terms of friendships and behaviour.
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