provide examples about self drive that demonstrate particular skills and abilities (competencies) that are important to your future success as a Manaaki New Zealand Scholar.

I have joined a writing movement named 30haribercerita on Instagram since 2017. It gathers Instagram users to write every January for 30 days. The evaluation of my writings is based on the number of stories reposted.

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way helps me to assess the quality of my writing. One day, I demand something bigger than just that movement. I decided to join a writing class hosted by an Indonesian novelist named Okky Madasari. I am always hesitant about my writing and feel doubt to avoid judgment. During the class, I was actively involved in discussions and shared my writing to be reviewed.

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system was efficacious in comprehending our forming composition and writing style. At

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I felt frustrated since I had no ideas to write.

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, I remembered a method applied in one of the experimental research I was involved in 2019. I used the same technique named kikigaki originates from Japan to record the story of

meijin

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Beijing

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who pass down local wisdom through face-to-face dialogue. I

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looked up to my mother’s diary, but it was too personal to share and developed in a fiction story. I believe no story lives unless someone wants to listen said J.K. Rowling.