Blogs • James Wright (Blog Scholar 2009)

So what do you call home? Home for me is the Hawkes Bay. The east region of the north island. Beautiful place and nice weather most of the time. If you dont know, its main town Napier is the Art deco capital of New Zealand and we have the only Art Deco Mcdonalds in the world!! Napier is a beachside town which is a prime spot when it comes to celebrations like fireworks, christmas and the new year. Its obviuosly not as up market as auckland or the capital but its a cruisy stress-free town with a cosiness to it. Many of you would have heard of the 1931 napier earthquake. It pretty much flattened napier and survived as a 'tin town' as most of the shops were structured with corrogated iron. One of the buildings that survived was the Municipal theatre, which is considered to be Napiers town hall. Many concerts, productions and school performances are held there so i guess if was to parallel with selwyn, it would be the 'Neville cup' centre of hawkes bay. Mclean Park in that case is definitely the Cameron sheild equivalent with regular provincial and international rugby matches as well as cricket matches. I guess what im trying to say is that Selwyn and home are very much the same, theres no place like it. The pride that is built and the friends that become family are the things that will stay with you for a very long time.