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Te Reo Rata and Totara

Te Reo Rata and Totara

SUMMARY: Rata was told to go cut down the mighty totara and carve a waka out of it. Rata went out the next morning and cut it down with his axe. That night the birds and insects put the tree back together. He went out again the next day to be shocked that the tree was back standing up again. By the end of the day he had started to carving out his waka it became night time and he stuck around hiding in the bushes then the creatures came out and he grabbed the piwakawaka and demanded why they kept putting the totora back up. They said because you haven't asked for permission so he asked and the birds of the forests call tanemahuta he was allowed to so the birds said come back tomorrow and it will be carved so the birds set to work. The next morning he came to a beautiful carved waka.

Moral:  

Tiakina nga manu, ka ora te ngahere. ka ora te ngahere, ka ora te manu.

Look after the birds and the forest flourishes. If the forest flourishes, the birds flourish

If you want to get trees from the forest you need to get permission from the birds and tane mahuta.  

The surf in Australia

The surf in Australia

I’ll never never forget the time when I first surfed a wave in australia.

I got up one morning in our hotel in australia and asked mum, “What are we doing today mum?” She said that first we would go to a nice cafe and get breakfast and then go to some  surfing lessons at Mula beach. I waited and waited for my sister to do her hair which took a long time and finally when she was done we got in the car and drove off.

We arrived at a cafe in sunshine coast (where we stayed) and had breakfast. Then we got back in the car to go to Mula beach which was only a few minutes away and arrived there only we didn’t know where the surfing lessons were.

When we found the surfing lessons were we all got into our wetsuits and got our boards and went out with the instructor to the ocean. He told us how to get up on our boards and surf a wave. When that was over we got in the sea and listened to the instructor what to do first, my sister and I got pushed out from the instructor and into little waves of course me doing what every boy would do tried to get up and stand up on the board but I fell off.

Now it was my sister's turn and she just got up then fell back down again. The instructor told her it’s fine when it’s your first time and even when it’s not you still fall down. The instructor pushed her out like what he did to me and she did exactly what i did, got up then fell off the board.

At the end of the lesson I did not want to stop but we had to because it was nearly dinner time and i was getting so hungry i could of eaten anything at that moment, so we drove off back to sunshine coast to eat.

The noises in the attic

The Noises In The Attic

( based on a true story )

One dark gloomy night a little boy was in the attic looking for his stuffed bear but the bear looked different than usual. He slowly and tiredly creeped down the creaky stairs and went back to bed. The next day he heard noises coming from attic and went up to have a look. But that was the complete wrong decision so he raced back down to his mum’s bedroom but saw something even worse than the noises from the attic.

It was night and the boy didn’t have enough toys so he went up to the attic not remembering the noises and got another toy but it was too late and the boy was thrown against the back wall and slitt by the throat not knowing who did it and let out a great scream, the dad raced up to the attic and saw that the boy had been the mum but also saw something else and heard “look behind you”…

(Chapter 2)

A dark shadow was creeping up behind him and struck like a light. The next day the house went on sale. A man went to have a look at the house not knowing it was haunted. The man who was thinking about buying the house seemed to be a nice man but not knowing that, if he buys the house that will stop.

The next day the man said “yes I’ll take the house and so he did. As soon as possible the man raced home and told his over excited family the good news. That night the man and his family had moved into the haunted house and heard noises in the attic. The man got up out of bed and had a look upstairs, He heard the same sentence as the original owner of the house did, “look behind you”.

That morning the family started looking for the dad but could not find him and thought that he went out for a morning walk like he always does but a few hours later he didn’t Debbie back. They were wondering where he was but suddenly they heard a noise coming from the attic, a sort of scratching noise.

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