WRK EXPERIENCE>>>

Well on Thursday, i got another opportunity to go & do another story! I had to go to EGGS, Epsom Girls Grammar. And interview a couple of the maori students about what there views are on the elections. That went well too.. I made the students just be themselves & give there most honest opinions on what they think about Voting, & how much they even do know about it!

It was soo funny, i got the class to huddle in a bunch & start up a debate. NOW because they were teenagers i got teenagers answers! like, helen Clark is too ugly to run the country, but yet in some country in the middle East shes considered one of the most sexiest women in the world!!!HAHAHHA, & also apparently John Key's HOT! I dont get that at all! And aparently kids should get free transport to school every day!

So the whole thing deffinetly started to come together.

When i interviewed the first girl it was sooo funi coz she told me she would vote for labour because shes an old x student from EGGS & also cause her mum does! After asking her what do you know about heln & her party she said "I dont know"!!!!

So i guess kids these days dont realise the importance of knowing info on politics & just how much it can effect the country & also the importance of knowing as much info as you can about the person you want to vote for! AND HOW THEY WILL CATER TO YOUR NEEDS, & YOUR COUNTRYS NEEDS!!!!!!

Work experience, Te kaea, MTS

Well, this whole week has been so intresting!

Well, started on monday, didnt no what to expect! But at the end of the day the first day was pretty sweet! We just sat in the corner realy & just watched everyone work!lol. UNTIL! i was told that tommorow i had to do a story! So i had a blank paper in front of me, then i started jotting out ideas for a story to do the next day!

Then it hit me! the baby that got run over on Sunday night in Kaikohe! My fams live there, so why not do that one! So i went home, did abit of research, got in touch with ACC, Manukau citu Council, obviously needed someone who could speak maori! And asked them if i could interview them at a Kohanga Reo about Awareness of kids in driveways!

They accepted, YAIYA i have a story now!!lol....

So went in to work on tuesday, told the boss i have interviewees and there expecting us at 11.00am.

Got to the location, i told the camera man to do a couple of GV'S, general shots of the Kohanga Reo outside, & there were these think safe signs outside on the fence & told him to do some shots of those tooo... & of course some of the kids singing...

Went & said hello to the 2 women i was about to interview, then we started..

It went realy well, considering i pulled off a story from scratch in only 1 DAY!

Then went back to the office, started editing the story, writing up my script, & pulled it all together!

Boy was it fun! It went to air the next night!!hahaha

The Evening of Thursday..

We were tested on what we had learnt all week, also the work that we did with Chris & Tina, we all lined up in rows, & did the Patu work all together.. Man was it a great feeling, were all the 120 people came together & performed this item to the cooks to show them our appreciation for all there hard work for the whole week!

Then it was time to do the JOKE! So i stood up in the marae, stood infront of everyone & went for it...

IT WAS GOOD, everyone laughed throughout the whole thing, I was mocking Winston Peters & Helen Clark!!! Oh & T e Waihoroi!!!hahaha, the teacher...

Thursday in Rotorua

Today is the last day of class, tommorow were going home, YAIYA!!! Cant wait!

Well in the morning i had Hiria Tumoana! She's soo funny! she's a very straight up kind of a women! Because our course is a broadcasting course, she kept telling me that my Reo Maori has to be correct, because kids who watch T.V will be learning off us, so its important that my Reo is up to scratch...

Her class was all about finding other maori words that have the same meaning...

To be honest i didnt realy pay attention in this class because i was trying to prepare my Joke that i was chosen to do in front of everyone that avening!!!

Wednesday- In Rotorua

Today our first class was with Materoa Haenga...

And her class was all about KIWAHA!

so for example:
*HAU PIRAU!- Lier, or *I KII ATU RA- I told you so! or *HE MAI TIKA MAI- Write or Wrong...

So she basically explained a whole lot of Kiwaha to us & then gave us a paper with blank spaces on them & we had to fill them spaces in with the right Kiwaha in..

It was awesome, after we filed them in we had to act it out like a little play!

Then it was lunch, after that we had Rahera Shortland...

She soo favored me, because she knows my mum...hehehe. who is the C.E.O of Ngapuhi.

And in her class we focussed on translating Maori storys into Pakeha... That was fun, but the storys we had to do were sad, one of them was a true story of a guy that got attacked by a shark! And Boy was it detailed!!!!! The whole time we were translating this story i just kept thinking if this guy we were reading about was all right & is Still Alive! Found out at the end of the class that he was!lol

Tuesday- In Rotorua

Same routine today, woke up, had karakia, had breakfast, then started class!

First up we had Te Waihoroi Shortland... He has a show thats on tv called TE TEPU!!
And he also Directs Cartoons & stuff.. Thats were ive worked with him in the past, so he sort of remembered me from that.. I did alot of voiceovers with him for all these cartoons on Maori TV.

Anyway, his main concern about maori is that we listen to maori conversations, but do we realy get the point of the whole topic?

So we watched an episode of his show, TE TEPU, of all these Old people giving there opinion about all the Partys in Goverment & what they think about the MPS & who we should not trust & who we should trust.. Then he handed a sheet with all these questions asking what this & that person were saying on the programme, so the main objective of the task was to answer the questions RIGHT!!

Personally didnt do that well, i got alot wrong, & sometimes i didnt even answer them! But i think its because the programme was to fast, & it didnt give us a chance to read the next question, write the answer down & listen out for the next one!

Had lunch, then our next class was Leon Blake.
Hes the Kapahaka tutor for Te Piringa, which my cussin is in, she was the leader for there kapahaka group this year...

Hes a real cool guy, hes young, but he realy knows his stuff!

We focussed in his class on the correct ways of speaking maori, & when & where to add in certain letters in maori... like I, & KI.

I struggled abit with this class because when i talk maori, i have a habbit of just saying whats on my mind, & not realising, theres a structured way you must talk the Maori language..

So to break it down, if i speak maori, & translate it exactly into english, it would be very FOB, or incorrect language.

Monday-In Rotorua..

Well second day in Rotorua, had a horrible sleep! on that little matress, freezing from my head to my toes, and we had karakia at 6:45am in the morning!! 6am breakfast! And we start class 8am Sharp!

We were all put into groups the night we arrived, i was in group 1!!!

So first teacher we had for the whole livin was Chris & Tina Winitana!
They were awesome, i grew up watching them & there family perform at schools, & events all around the country. There groups name was Ahorangi Genesis...

So knowing abit about there background, i knew they loved performing, & they love being in the spot light!, & sure enough, thats what ended up happening. They asked us to grap a Patu, & go outside. Then they explained to us that we were going to be learning Whakatauki while doing the Patu movements!

Man it was hard enough knowing that we had to wake up early! And to now find out that were doing Patu work! While trying to remember these whakatauki!!

Example of 1 whakatauki-
*Taria ake kia maroke te rau tapu- Prepare, dont be a child!

At 12, we had lunch, then we went to our other class, which was with Wayne Ngata.

In his class we focused on translating English storys & Poems into Maori..
This was pretty hard because they wernt exacly normal english storys, instead they were shakespearian poems!!! I didnt even no what the words were in english let alone in Maori!

Sunday-In Rotorua...

Well woke up in the morning all excited to go down to Rotorua for the Kura Reo!
BUT! Wasnt to keen for the trip to get there!!!
Well well well was that trip interesting, i wanted to be onto it & take my own car! so i did. Boy should i have just jumped in the van with everyone else!lol. There were 4 of us in the car, & boy did we get lost!hahaha..
We stopped in Matamata for a feed at Mc,Dz, then carried onto Rotorua..
After HOW MANY HOURS< we finaly arrived!

Honest to who it was like freezing az there!

I new straight away that i was going to get sick!
Sure enough i did!

So there was a Powhiri, after that we went for a cup of tea then there was a hui in the marae to explain to us how things were going to be during the week, & what was expected of us to do, etc....

I tell you, when i was lying down in my bed, the only thing on my mind was HOME! NO PLACE LIKE HOME!!!

Story writting

At the moment im writing a story about my Church's Youth Group...
And the angle im going at is what does it mean to be Youth?
Im Young but a mum!! so does that still consider me as Youth???

Anyway, we have to write a story up about it.... And then turn it into a script! Then using that script turn it into a short film...

Im nervous to be honest because we have to do a story board, every scene by scene we have to plan in detail all the scene shots we want to do for the film...

Guess ill see how it went when i hand in my assignment...

Mission Completed!

Well we were given an assignment to do which was Audio... I personaly found it hard cause i did not go down to Turangawaewae with the rest of the class. Instead i interviewed my mum over the phone & made do with what information i had....

Anyway, apart from all of that i found Adobe Audition pretty easy to use! Its just common Sence realy. I had to cut my audio all up, put a song playing in the backround & walla!!!! Im finished..hahaha

Finally Back at School!!!

Wow, this week has been so annoying...

Unfortunately my 1 year old daughter came down with Chicken Pox! Yip you know what that means! no school.. have to stay home & look after her. I was so scared my self because i did not know wether or not i would catch it too. But luckily i didnt. Apparently i've already had it before when i was a baby.

Sooo, a whole week at home doing nothing, i couldnt go to school & prepare for my next assignment, & i also couldnt go down to hamilton on a thursday to interview someone about the Koroneihana. But what i did manage to do is interview someone over the phone who happened to be at the Koroneihana the day before!!! Boy was i happy!

So i got my tape recorder, put the phone on speaker & away we went!

The sound was that great but atleast i have something!!

WELL!!!

WELL! last week was GREAT!

I went to school everyday last week!!!please a round of applause would be great!lol

Not only that, i realy knuckled down on my assignment! more like the night before the due date!hahaha. But hay i work better under pressure. Im sure someone out there can relate!
On this topic, i think i have a teacher that is very unprofessional!

He tells us off in front of guests, talks alot about himself & doesnt know how to keep quiet when others are talking! Also after what i thought was an awesome class debate (Assignment) He totally turned it into a negative thing by saying we were not prepared! He should have been happy we even showed up that day! And PARTICIPATED in his STUPIT assignment!

Well thats my week.

Just Smile & nod Smile & nod. My mum says.

Back to Kura!!!

The Maori Media & language Course at M.I.T started strong at the starting of the year
Awesome Powhiri, awesome kai afterwards, full Class, great teacher alot of Smiles every where
you looked.
A couple of weeks later i noticed more & more students dropping out of class. We saw how much of a Blabber mouth our teacher was, & how there were no more smiles around the class room. Instead there were searious faces working hard to complete there assignments before the due date...

Well that was last Semester. And now there are 11 talented & hard working students left, going hard for what they believe in.

I now realise that graduation is approaching nearer every day. And i dont want to walk up to that stage to recieve my Certificate & think to myself... "Did i make the most of it? Could i have worked abit harder?"

I've learnt alot more then i ever knew about 'The Treaty of Waitangi', 'Te Reo Maori' & our history...etc....etc....

One of my learning Methods is Evaluation. To do so i like to research ptions, i like to compare notes with other people in my class & i also like to talk about it! I find when i do this the subject seems to make more sence to me.

I like to reconfirm with my teacher that what ive just heard is correct. And like to ask questions which is a form of reconfirming... I may go out of my way to research information, So you see that im generally a perfectionist, therefore very positive, & very keen to get the job done.

But First & foremost my most primary skill is my Reo Maori. Im good with Computers which is helpfull when we get assignments that must be completed on Computer. I enjoy writting, & have no fear talking to strangers.
My learning style is that i am audio & visual. But it would be good to try options of kinesthetic or tactile.

I think knowing your strengths & Weaknesses in how you learn is a big thing. Because then you know your limits to learning. If you are confident in yourself when it comes to work tasks go hard but always go over it again, & make it just as better as the first draft you did. There are no limits when it comes to doing better & greater things. And if you struggle abit, dont hessitate to ask anyone for help...

Kiaora, Noho Ora Mai...