Mata Moeka'a, from the Pasifika Manukau Chapter, is heading off to Sao Paulo Brazil, having been awarded an AFS Pasifika Scholarship.
 Here she answers some questions about her future experience
  What are you most looking forward to experiencing in your host country?
Meeting my host family and the people within my community. Actually to be really honest I'm really looking forward to eating the food :)
What do you expect to be your biggest challenges?
Trying to understand the how my host community functions and speaking the language
Do you speak the language?
NOPE , but I've totally been practising a little bit at a time
What can you say? (words/Phase)
Seu passaporte por favor ? and that’s the only sentence I can remember , other than that I can say the numbers and yea :) Oh by the way that sentence or phrase means "can I see your passport please ? "
What are you going to miss most from NZ?
My daddy and my family
Apart from language what part of the countries culture do you think is going to be the hardest to adapt to?
I seriously don’t have a clue, I'm just hoping I can do it with the BIGGEST SMILE EVER !
What bit of Kiwi culture will you try to teach them about?
The HAKA :) and the way we kiwi's roll