Name
Pania
Scenario
Female
Year 13 at school (aged 19).
From Auckland, lives with her mother and spends lots of time with her Dad.
Iwi affiliation with Ngati Porou and Te Atiawa.
A little shy.
(Loosely modelled on 'Jasmine' in the Wellness personas.)
Technology and internet
Laptop - accesses internet at home (evenings, weekends).
Uses Facebook to have chats with her friends and stay in touch with whanau. She also spends a fair bit of time on YouTube and loves Spotify, where she can listen to the latest music.
Phone (Android) - prepay (no internet).
Tertiary education and career goals
Wants to go to university: not really sure what she wants to study - is interested in education and psychology. Thinks that university could also help her to develop as a person and she'd like to get involved in groups and activities: although the thought of meeting new people and having new experiences is quite stressful.
If she chose Auckland Uni, the commute from her mum's home on the other side of the city would be stressful (and expensive). And the cost of flatting in Auckland, if she wanted to do that later, would be horrendous.
Wants to challenge herself and leave home: her sister graduated from Victoria two years ago and she's told Pania what a great experience it was, and how much she loved living in Wellington.
And actually, two people from her year at school are probably coming to Victoria next year. One of them is thinking of doing law and she's not sure what the other one is doing.
Pania has whanau in Lower Hutt, so she wouldn't be without support. However, she'd live in the Halls for the first year and then would probably go flatting - that's what her sister did, and she's talked heaps about how much she enjoyed it.
Information needs from Victoria