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.