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International Race's Day 2019

This is a photo of my International Race day colouring in of people. In Ruma Waru we are learning about segregation, stereotyping and discrimination. We had to colour in some people for  the day today. Then we had to pick three different languages and countries for these three people. 

We had to also include a quote that supports unity, diversity and world peace. 

This is my one I had found.

'We may all have different religions,different languages, different coloured skin, but we all belong to one human race.' By Kofi Annan

I chose...  

 

Te Aroha and The Divers(Te Aroha Kōrua Ngā Ira tangata) Story

Te Aroha and The Divers

(Te Aroha Kōrua Ngā  Ira tangata)

Long, long ago lived a strong, aggressive, evil taniwha. She was called Te Aroha. She lived in the great
 warm waters of the Waikato River. Who ever passed her magical border did not come back. She guarded
the life of the sea and her secret stash of treasures.

Te Aroha was a taniwha who had dark green skin, bright yellow eyes and sharp points on her back.

Te Aroha was arriving back from her early morning swim and noticed that her husband Tangaroa was gone.
She yelled out to him for a while and heard no reply and Tangaroa was nowhere to be seen. Te Aroha started
to worry and looked around their home for a note or something but their wasn’t anything. All there was was
silence and nothing to be seen at all or even heard, like life was drained out of the river.

One day , Te Aroha was resting in the warm waters of the Waikato River. She heard a deep, rumbling sound
coming from above her. She swam up to the surface. The gleaming and eye blinding light hit her eyes.
She quickly turned her head and there it was, a huge object that was floating on the water. She  had seen tall
and skinny penguins covered in a pango suit with weird looking penguin like feet. They had a huge tube growing out of their mouths.

She quickly glided over the water behind a huge log. She poked her head around the edge and was spying
on the weird looking penguins. She now realised these penguins were actually humans. Splash!
A huge gushing of water spilled out of the river causing waves.

Te aroha was angry that someone would dive into her river. Te Aroha quickly plucked herself under the waters
surface and headed towards where the divers were. She stopped in the distance and hid so the divers couldn’t
see her. Te Aroha was keeping an eye on her treasures making sure no one puts their hands on them.

The divers were swimming and checking out creatures and taking underwater photos. Suddenly from above Te
Aroha a huge circle of black oil was filling the water. Te Aroha immediately thought of it that oil goes through
the lake then all the cool creatures and of course her treasures will be gone forever until the river can be clean again.

Te Aroha got so angry she swam up to the boat with fierce and desire and bumped the bottom of the boat causing
it to flip. She still didn’t think that was enough so Te Aroha stretched her fingers out and used her powerful and
mysterious powers to cause huge waves making the  people in the water get hit hard by the waves.

Out of nowhere a huge long and thick piece of rope had gotten thrown into the  river. Really quickly the boat
people and the divers grabbed a hold of the rope. Te Aroha was furious but didn’t do anything. She had seen a
little girl on the bank with the rope reeling them in. This little girl you could tell was helpful and strong.
Her dark black hair with warm strokes of brown blows in the nipping breeze of the wind.

Te Aroha was actually a nice and caring taniwha but she also wanted revenge from her husband leaving her
so she has changed. Te Aroha wanted to know who the little girl was and wanted to introduce herself to her.
So Te Aroha swam through the water and ended up at the edge of the bank.

‘Hello,  my name is Te Aroha or the guardian of treasures and of the life of the river as a taniwha.’
‘Who are you?’ asked Te Aroha.

‘Hi Te Aroha nice to meet you, Im Kaia,’ said the little girl. ‘You don’t look happy are you okay?’ mentioned Kaia.

‘Well, ever since I came home to Tangaroa not being there and leaving be with nothing I have felt sad ever since,’
Te Aroha said sadly.

‘Sorry who’s Tangaroa?’ questioned Kaia.

‘Tangaroa is my husband or known as god of the sea,’ muttered Te Aroha.

A little voice in the background seemed to fill Te Aroha ears with, ‘Kaia come in for lunch!’ Te Aroha was
confused and wanted to know who it was. Her lightly blonde hair filled the forest with light and brightness.
‘Who’s that?’ asked Te Aroha.

‘That’s my younger sister Emma. She can’t hear you or see you. I think I will have to go now maybe see you
another time Te Aroha,’ whispered Kaia.

‘Who were you talking to?’ questioned Emma.

‘What do you mean I was singing,’ replied Kaia.

Kaia ran off with her younger sister Emma into the distance towards up hill.

Te Aroha asked herself, she can’t see me or hear me than what am I? A ghost?

Te Aroha looked down at the water beneath her and seen that the water was not blue it was filling with sad
darkness. Te Aroha took off faster to the nearest

flax bush and ripped off some strips of the harakeke and plaited over and under to turn strips of flax into a
woven bag. Te Aroha finished the bag then she went to her secret hideout of treasures and placed each one
in her bag carefully.

She was devastated now that she has to move and find a new home. So she  decided to start her journey.
Te Aroha decided she would swim to wherever the Waikato River takes her.

She headed eastwards and swam for hours and finally reached the end of the river into a lake. It was a big and surrounded by dark and light green bush. This lake is called lake Taupo. Te Aroha kept swimming and found a
underwater cave and swam under. This was a underwater cave but filled with shiny gold and sparkling silver.
Te Aroha was amazed at this place. She didn’t even realize there was a surface for the water and the tip of the
cave was at least 10 meters above her. There was a small and flat ledge on the edge of the cave and she slowly
and carefully picked her treasures one by one onto it looking like a display. The cave started to get dark and Te
Aroha felt tired swam towards the bottom of the lake in the cave and fell asleep.

The next morning Te Aroha woke up and felt really really hungry and today she wanted to eat some brown trout.

She took off out of the entrance to the cave and headed North. She knew that brown trout like the warm water so
she sang a song and her voice bounced off the brown trout and had been sent off to Te Aroha. Te Aroha reached a
group of trout lying calmly on the bed of the lake. Te Aroha moved slowly then reached out and snatched a brown
trout. Te Aroha was so hungry she  gobbled it down really fast.

Once she finished having her breakfast Te Aroha headed back towards her cave. Te Aroha again  heard a
deep rumbling sound coming from above her and then a splash and someone was in the water. The person had
seen the underwater cave and  had a look inside of the cave. James quickly went up to the surface and said,
‘there is a underwater cave down there. Should we go check it out?’

‘James your being silly, there is no underwater caves,’ said the other diver.

‘You don’t believe me, come one then I will show you,’ said James.

James and his friend dived into the water and James pointed towards the cave and suddenly they disappeared
into it. Te Aroha was so angry they had invaded her home so she followed and spied  on them to see what they
would do.

‘Woww,’ said James and his friend together.

‘Do you believe me now Matthew?’ asked James. Matthew didn’t reply.

‘What is this place?’ questioned Matthew.

‘I’m not sure. It could be a storage place for pirates back  then,’ replied James.

‘Look at this stuff, it must be from the early 1500’s onwards,’ suggested Matthew.

‘Let’s take some home and show our families,’ said James.

When Te Aroha heard James say ‘let’s take some home and show our families’ she was really mad and
didn’t want James and Matthew to take her treasure. So she used her magical powers and froze James and
Matthew a second before they grabbed some treasure. Te Aroha unfroze them then sang a song to lead them
out like an enchantment. James and Matthew immediently swam out of the cave and  jumped onto their boat
and took off heading east. Te Aroha was relieved to see them go.

She decided she needed to be safe and to secure the cave with a special entrance she’d have to speak. Te Aroha
was thinking all day of an entrance she could use to get into the cave and only her. She couldn’t think of anything
but all of a sudden a great idea popped into her head. Te Aroha said to herself ‘why not do this? Pōaha toro puku
tomotomokanga ( open secret entry). When Te Aroha  made an entrance a huge spiral forms and she swims through
and appears in the cave. Before Te Aroha can say the secret entry message it's just a rock wall.

Te Aroha wanted to add to her huge collection of treasures so she said the secret message ‘pōaha toro puku
tomotomokanga’ then the magical door opened. She went through the magical  spiral and she appeared again near
a rock wall. Te Aroha set off towards the other end of Lake Taupo and began searching for treasure. She looked
high and low, in the distance and couldn't see anything.

She turned her head and seen a sharp shining light filling her eyes. Te Aroha had no clue what the blinding light
was. The shining light drew Te Aroha towards it. She was swimming for a while. The weird shiny light grew
bigger and Te Aroha now realised she was very close. She kept swimming with determination to see what was
drawing her attention.

Te Aroha now has reached this shining light and stopped and searched for it. She looked down below her and
there it was a group of gold like figures and coins.

‘Wow,’ Te Aroha said with amazement.

This flax bag she makes can hold anything, it is not like a normal flax bag with a bottom.Her flax bags don’t
have a ending like the bottom of the bag it keeps going but you can’t see it. So it can hold all the treasure she
find but weighs so light.

Te Aroha searched around for anything or anyone whom was watching and could not see anything so she plucked
some treasure and placed it into her flax bag. She looked around for more but she couldn’t see anymore.
The seaweed in the far background was moving softly in the warm water and Te Aroha spotted a round
brown box. Again she swam over and pushed the seaweed aside. It was a huge brown treasure box.

She was so happy and thought that there was heaps  of treasure in it. Te Aroha wanted to open it but it was locked and she didn’t have any way she could take it back to the cave. Then she realised that she has her flax bag that can hold anything but weighs so light. But how was she going to pick up and place the treasure box into the bag? She remembered her magic can lift it up. She thought of what she was going to do and used her hand powers to lift the treasure box moving it and dropped it into her bag.

Te Aroha now wants to head back to her cave and see what she has collected. Te Aroha swam back to the cave,

did her magical entrance  ‘pōaha toro puku tomotomokanga’ and then appeared a spiral and she entered. A diver
camouflaging in the seaweed swam out and before the spiral disappeared he  entered the cave through the spiral.
Te Aroha was in the cave and taking the treasures she had found onto the rocks in the cave. The diver that had
entered the cave was one of the ones that came last time. They just won’t stop coming back. Te Aroha couldn’t
she him and she needed some sleep so she laid on the bed of the lake in the cave and fell asleep.

The diver thought this was a good time to get out. He remembered the secret entrance and said ‘pōaha toro puku
tomotomokanga’ to leave. He left the cave but had told him friend  the cave entrance has disappeared but there
is a secret entrance that he knows. The diver Matthew told his friend James that if he takes all the treasure they can earn a fortune. James agreed and imagined being rich and he liked the idea.

The following day Matthew and James grabbed their gear and headed out to the cave. Matthew and James jumped
into the lake with a huge bag to put the treasure in. Matthew did the entrance and they both entered the
underwater cave. ‘Wow, there has been more treasures put into the cave,” said James

‘Yeah when I was here yesterday she had a whole treasure chest and lose pieces of treasures,’ replied Matthew.

‘Come on then what are we waiting for?’ questioned James.

James and Matthew starting collecting heaps and heaps of treasures and putting them into their bag. After a
long time James had noticed Te Aroha’s magical bag.

‘That is the magical bag Matthew. The creature used that to take heaps of treasures and it didn’t look heavy.
Should we take it and use it?’ whispered James.

‘Okay sure!’ answered Matthew.

James grabbed the magical bag and gathered all the treasures in their old bag and putted it into the magical bag.
James and Matthew took so much there was only a little bit left. They kept going until all the treasure had gone.
‘Thats all of it. Let’s go back to the boat and head home,’ whispered Matthew.

The cave was rocky and plain without its treasures. When Te Aroha woke up she swam to the surface. Her mouth
dropped so far down and tears of sadness flowed down her miserable face.

Matthew and James were making heaps of money selling the treasures and putting the really old and rare ones
from back in the 1800’s in museums. While Jame and Matthew are making millions of dollars with Te Aroha’s
treasures while she has been crying and crying for years.

Te Aroha thought there is no point for her to be in the cave and guarding treasures when there is no treasures to guard. So she swam to the side of the cavesaid the secret message which was not secret anymore and turned herself on the side of the rock wall into stone looking like her face.

The face you see now at Lake Taupo made with rock is where Te Aroha lies to this day and beyond time.

The End By Jennae Topliss

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Treaty Of Waitangi

This year Room Eight and Room One had to relearn and go over the Treaty Of Waitangi. We had to make little booklets and waka  showing the flags that have been used as the New Zealand Flag. Everyone has also made a paper boat and each boat in our set team groups are a different waka that came with the Great Fleet.

My Mihi

My Mihi

Kia Ora koutou katoa

Ko Davey tōku maunga.

Ko Māwheranui tōku awa.

Ko Pākehā tōku iwi.

Ko Lady Jane raua ko HMS Laburnum ōku waka

No Māwhera ahau.

Ko Topliss ingoa whanau.

Ko te kura o Karoro te marae.

Ko Graeme tōku matua.

Ko Glenda tōku Whaea.

Ko kayla ōku tuakana.

ko Jayden rāua ko Jack ōku

Tungane.

ko Jennae toku ingoa.

Ko Millie tōku ngeru.

Tenā Koutou Katoa

Recording Of Mihi