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!
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