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  • A final note to express my gratitude

      6 October 2020

    Talofa friends. This is a final note to express my gratitude and appreciation for each of you. The word “thanks” is not enough to express how profoundly the success of this fundraiser has moved me. The number of donors and the amount raised really surprised me.

    I hope you will continue to enjoy and support my work as I move into the next chapter of my career.

    I am taking up a research residency with Samoa House Library (Karangahape Road, Auckland) later this month. I will be investigating the history of the Samoa House building. I hope to shed some light on the actions and efforts of the Samoan community in Auckland during the 1970s, the fruition of which is this building.

    Music will also be a more prominent part of my work in the immediate future, so expect to see and hear more about that before too long.

    After the last few years of relative reclusiveness online, I intend to create a more cohesive and coherent virtual presence in the coming months. I hope it finds you! Please keep an eye out for it.

    For now, @daniel.satele.retrospective on Instagram is a good place to follow me online. Please also feel free to contact me at danielmichael.satele@gmail.com to discuss any aspect of my work further.

    Fa’afetai, malo, kia ora. 🙏

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  • Thank you so much

      28 September 2020

    I was scared to put this up but I'm so glad I did. Thank you so much everyone. 💕 This is one of the most validating experiences of my life. 🙏🏽 I feel humbled and blessed to find out how many people care about this project (which is one of the most isolating things I've ever done). Your gestures of support have put a totally different hue on the final days of writing the revisions, in one of the more pressurised weeks of my career. Plus each dollar lifts so much pressure off my mind, I can't thank you enough. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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  • Thank you & contact info

      23 September 2020

    Talofa lava, thank you so much to everyone who has donated so far. I am totally humbled and moved by your kindness.

    Just a note to say please contact me at danielmichael.satele@gmail.com with your receipt if you wish to be listed in the thesis acknowledgments with your full name rather than what you may have listed here.

    Fa’afetai tele lava, kia ora, and thank you so so so much!

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