Personal Response to a Quote Resilient Rangitahi

Goodler’s quote is “I have not always chosen the safest path. I’ve made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I’ve learned something important along the way: I’ve learned to heed the call of my heart. I’ve learned that the safest path is not always the best path and I’ve learned that the voice of fear is not always to be trusted.

― Steve Goodier

 

Write what you think it means and how you have experienced this in your own life. This could be at school, at home or with something that you do out of school.

 

I remember when my cat Luna got hit by a car and she died. I found that to be a really big challenge for me so the next day dad  let me stay home from school.  That night I gave her food because I forgot she was not with us, and the day Luna died 3 of my friends came to my house and we went for a walk and talked about Luna.  When I’m reading I find it like a challenge  because reading is hard for me to focus so what I have to do is find an interesting  bit in the book and read that, because it makes me want to read more. Then when we have to stop reading I want to keep reading but when I first started to read I did not want to. People have challenges and  some people just want to give up, but don’t give up because you can’t do it.. Some people say they can’t do it! but you can’t do it yet. People find that they have challenges that they think they can’t do and  they want to do it so they can say to themselves ” I can work for it and I can do it.  If people do not have challenges they will not develop confidence and belief in themselves.

Winter Olympics

Every four years there is a sport called the Winter Olympics. New Zealand should learn about the Winter Olympics because it is a fun sport that is in the snow and we will be good at it because we always  have coal wearth. We have some really good players for the Winter Olympics. 

 

New Zealanders should learn about the Winter Olympics because it will encourage more people to do the Winter Olympics so that the sport is more world weight.  New Zealanders should have to learn about the Winter Olympics because most people can ski and snowboard and it is really fun. The Winter Olympics is an outside sport so if you do the Winter olympics it is good for you and your body because you are outside it is also good for the people watching the Winter olympics it is good for them because they are outside.  

Marae Camp

Marae Camp

On Monday morning I arrived at school ready to go to the Marae. I put my stuff down and waited until 9.10am so that we could leave. I was in a car with Poppy and Lianka there and back. I was kind of scared to go because I did not know what I was meant to do when I went there but I did not have to do anything.

When we got there we had to wait at the waharoa gate way for Michelle to welcome us into the marae.

We had to do that powhiri process which is where the boys go behind the girls and the girls have to go in front. When we were walking we had to walk on the left side because our ancestors walk on the right side. Then we got welcomed into the marae but before we went inside we had to take our shoes off and put them in a line at the window.

I was really happy because I was looking forward to going to the river that has green stone that we could find if it found us. We had to walk down to the river . We had to go down a really big hill then go down a small track to get there. Then me and my friends Elsie, Eve and Amila went and looked but we could only find stones that were green and no one found any green stones. Before anyone found green stones we had to go back up the big hill and back to the marae.

At about four pm we walked down to the beach to get some sticks for marshmallows and the fire. At the end of the day we played dodgeball and the adults got tea ready. We had chips and salad and some lasagna but I only had chips because I did not like the other stuff that we have. After everyone had had tea we got some dessert. I had ice cream and cheesecake. Once everyone was done, Kea ( my class) had to clean up and pack up.

After tea we played a night game then we had to sit down by the fire and sing some songs and we roasted marshmallows then we had to get ready for bed. Me and Elsie sat down in our beds and played “Roll a Story’”. “Roll a Story” is a game that you can play with some dice but before we could finish we had to go to bed.

The next day most of us woke up at 6.30am and my teacher told us to get ready for the day or go back to bed till 7am. When everyone got out of bed and was ready for the day we played a game then we had breakfast before we got ready to go on a walk that is 1 hour there and 1 hour back.

Me and my friend Brylee did not want to go on the walk but we had to. At the end of the walk there was a really pretty lake. My class and I sat down at the lake and my teacher made sure we were all there, then she told us about the lake. The lake is where some Maori wors happen and Tuaroaro-o te rangi. The man carried 3 people’s hair in his mouth back to their family. We got some food and went back on the walk.

Once everyone was done that walk we got in the cars and went back to school. When I got back to school I took my stuff out of the car and when I got up to the class I sat down because my legs heard from the walk. I sat down, tried and was ready to go home but I couldn’t so I ate some food with my friends.

Maddie

 

Māui ki Te Waipounamu 

Tuwhakarara came and he tied up the two taniwha to mark that this was land and then they left.

Māui and his crew came and the tamariki said “He whenua! He whenua!” (The land! The land!) 

Māui said “Kao, he tiritiri o te Moana” (no that is not land,it is a mirage) 

Then Māui realised that there was land and he realized that the mirage they saw wasn’t a mirage, it was land.

Once they got to the land they saw that there were 2 taniwha guarduing the bay. They defeated the two taniwha. They celebrated by naming the mountain and mountain range – Ka Tiritiri o te Moana (mirage of the ocean). After his mistake, he also named one of the mountains Tihei mauri Ora (call to claim the right to speak) and the bay Piopiotahi after his bird.