Xin chào!
Kia ora
Hello
您好
Ko wai au?
Nō Việt Nam ōku tūpuna
I whānau mai au i Hồng Kông
I tipu ake au i Ngā Puna Waiora
Kei te noho au ki Pari-ā-Rua
Ko Đoàn rāua ko Hương ōku mātua
Ko Hà tōku tuakana māhanga
Ko Minh Phượng rāua ko Duy Luân āku tungāne
Ko tōku hoa tāpui, tōku tangata tino motuhake, ko Leo tōna ingoa
Ko Mayo tōku ngeru püaroha
Ko te auahatanga te manawa o tōku oranga
He ngākau nui taku mō te ako i ngā ahurea — tōku ake, me érā atu
Ko Ly tōku ingoa
My ancestors are from Việt Nam, I was born in Hồng Kông along with my twin sister, Hà.
We arrived in Aotearoa in 1990 and were raised here along with my two younger brothers.
Other languages I speak are Vietnamese and I am learning te reo Māori and Mandarin.
Creativity or the Arts - is something I hold close to my heart. It provides me with a way of viewing the world as interconnected. When there are barriers to understanding, I find myself coming back to the Arts—its way of thinking and its power to connect everything and everyone through its many languages of embodied, visual, musical, dramatic, and playful expression.
I have a Bachelor of Design - Visual Communication Design (Honours) and spent around 10 years working in the design industry, most of it as the sole designer at The Learning Connexion - School of Creativity and Art. I also spent two years diving into a more tactile art-making journey. My design career led me to teach the Creative Design course through Te Auaha - now Whitireia/WelTec. I taught at Hunan City University in Yiyang, Hunan, China, throughout the university semester. This is how I found myself walking towards teaching in Aotearoa. I am at the start of my journey as a beginning kaiako and have already been welcomed in with open arms by e te whānau Amesbury. I am blessed to become a part of the family.
Ko tēnei taku mihi ki a Ngāti Toa, ngā mana whenua o te rohe nei.
Ka mihi hoki au ki ngā tohu o te rohe nei
Nō reira, tena koutou katoa
Ly
