12th May, 2011

I woke up in the middle of the night while sleeping in the house around midnight and was so frightened. The wind was blowing and it sounded like a door was slamming under and around the house. At one point I woke up and turned on some lights and then the noise seemed to stop. Weird. I laid back in bed and then the noise started up again. I started thinking crazy thoughts about how there was a Maori ghost that wasn’t happy I was a Pakeha, (white woman) inside the school house. I laid in bed and prayed that the ghost would go away, which didn’t happen. Eventually, I got up and walked into the other room to see if the noise was coming from in there, which it was. The window wouldn’t close all the way, and the wind was pushing it around, so I put a small book in the space to close the gap and keep the wind from slamming the window. It was pretty hilarious though, to think that I was so terrified and thinking there was a Maori ghost that was fucking with me. Ha!