Tiaho Mai Rā, Week 1, Day 4

Māori Translation:

Tiaho mai rā
Te whetu o te ata
Kopu i te ao,
Pareārau i te pō
Ka tu te ao marama
he ao hara
Tu mai rā koe hei tohu i ahau,
Tu mai rā koe hei tohu i ahau,

E kore te aroha,
E kaupare noa
Hoki mai rā ki ahau, e te tau.
Hoki mai rā ki ahau, e te tau.

Tiaho mai rā
Te whetu o te ata
Kopu i te ao,
Pareārau i te pō
Ka tu he o marama
he ahara
Tu mai rā koe hei tohu i ahau,
Tu mai rā koe hei tohu i ahau

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English Translation:

Shining over there Is the morning star Venus in the dawn, Saturn in the night The full moon is rising Above a sinful world You rise up there as a sign to me  You rise up there as a sign to me...  ...that love does not Randomly turn away. Come back to me my darling Come back to me my darling Shining over there Is the morning star Venus in the dawn, Saturn in the night The full moon is rising a Above a sinful world You rise up there as a sign to me  You rise up there as a sign to me.  __________________________________ Song was Created And Sang By Te Awhina  __________________________________ I enjoy this song because it may be only a small one, but it has a great timing and rhythm towards it, making it a gentle but effective Waiata. By Aedan Gunn 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bJR2ELZs0s

Pepeha. Week 1, Day 3, Part 2.

Ko Aoraki tōku maunga

Ko Mawheranui tōku awa

Ko Endeavour tōku waka

Ko Pakeha tōku iwi  

Ko Ngati Scots tōku hapu

No Mawhera ahau

Ko Michelle rāua ko Dougal ōku mātua

Ko Hamish tōku teina

Ko Aedan tōku ingoa

Tēnā koutou katoa.

One Of A Million, Week 1, Day 3

One Of A Million

Well, this is the life, working my arms to the limit harvesting wheat and baking it into bread to share with my 7 other siblings who do nothing to help.  Being the eldest in the family doesn't give you any perks, it seems as if all we're useful for is keeping us alive.  My mother and father haven't given me any glory towards me helping them over the past years and it makes me feel useless.  So when I have to leave my parents I'll make lots of money and wave it right in front of my family's pesky little faces.  They'll ask "Woah, how did you get all that money?", and I'll reply "From working hard, unlike you!"

From Aedan Gunn 2017

My Job Choice Of The Future Week, 1 , Day 2, Part 2

When I grow up I would like to become this:

Wharepuni Structure Week 1, Day 2

Maori Translation: Ko taku Wharepuni rite Whare Ko te rereketanga i waenganui i taku whare me Wharepuni he 1) kaore a Taniwha e haere ana i waho o to whare, 2) kaore he ahua Maori i whakairohia ki to whare. Ko nga rite rite ki te 1) e rua nga wahi he harakeke i waho i te wa e ora ana ahau i te ngahere me te 2) e rua nga rakau e whakamahia ana hei hanga io tatou whare. Na Aedan Gunn 2017

English Translation:

My Wharepuni Like House

The difference between my house and a Wharepuni is 1) we do not have Taniwha roaming around outside our house and 2) we do not have Maori patterns carved into our house.

The similarities include 1) both places have flax outside as I live surrounded by bush and 2) we both have wood used to build our house. 

By Aedan Gunn 2017

Setting Sail! Week 1, Day 1, Part 2

Maori Translation: Ko te Waka Trip E hoa Norman, Ki te korero koe i tenei, ka koa ahau ki te korero ki a koe e haere ana matou i te taha o te moana takutai ki te rapu whenua. Kaore i roa to maatau kai ka haere matou ki te hī ika i to matou ara ki reira, ko te ahua o te waa he waka tawhito. I te nuinga o te waa na te waka i pupuhi i nga ika ika me o tatou poari ika i marara noa atu i te waka. Me horoi te wai e nga tohunga i runga i te poti, na, i te mea ka nui atu to maatau ika, ka mau ahau ki te iti o te waa, i whangaia ai matou mo tetahi waahi iti o to maatau haerenga. I te mutunga ka kitea e matou te whenua me te ingoa o Niu Tireni, Koinei pea te whenua matomato kua kitea e au i to maatau haerenga. Na Aedan Gunn 2017

English Translation:

The Waka Trip

Dear Norman, If you're reading this, I'll be glad to tell you that we're on our way across the pacific ocean in search of land.  Our packed food didn't last long so we had to go fishing on our way there, it was almost as if our waka was an old fashion fishing boat.  Especially because the waka reeked of fish guts and our fishing rods scattered across the waka.  The water had to be purified by the experts on the boat, so while they did that we did more fishing, I caught I small flounder which fed us for a small session of our trip.  Eventually we found land and named it Aotearoa, It may have been the greenest land I had ever seen on our journeys.

By Aedan Gunn 2017

Māui And The Giant Fish, Week 1, Day 1

Maori Translation:

Māui me te ika nui
I mohio ahau ki te mahi a Māui i tana raina ika me te muka, he pehea tana korero i tana karakia i te kaha o tana aho ika, me te pehea i whakamahia ai e ia tona kauae tawhito i hoatu e tona tupuna ki a ia, e mau ana ki te raina. I ako ahau mo te hiahia nui o nga tuakana o Māui ki te kai, me pehea to raatau ki te kai, me te hiahia ki te whiwhi i a raatau katoa kia whiwhi ai i nga moni katoa. I mohio ahau ko te whenua o Aotearoa i hangaia no te nui o nga ika nui o ana ika i kii atu ai ona tuakana ki a ratou ano, ka waiho ko te okiokinga anake mo nga rau tau me nga mano o nga tau i hangaia nga whenua o Aotearoa. Na Aedan Gunn 2017


English Translation:

Māui And The Giant Fish

• I learned how Māui had forged his fishing line with strong woven flax, how he recited his karakia giving his fishing line strength, and how he used his ancient jawbone his ancestor had given him, bounding it securely to the line.
• I learned about the enormous greed in which Māui's brothers had towards food, how they were extremely selfish towards food, wanting to earn it all by themselves to get all the credit.
• I learned that the landscape of Aotearoa was formed because of the gigantic parts o giant fish his selfish brothers had claimed for themselves, leaving the rest alone for hundreds and thousands of years forming the landscapes of Aotearoa.  

By Aedan Gunn 2017