My Pepeha

WALA : our pepeha 
Today I will be talking about my pepeha, my pepeha is a way of me introducing myself, letting other people know about where I am from and what tribe I am from. You would say your pepeha when you are on a marae and you have to introduce you and your family, my pepeha is ... 

Ko Maungarei toku maunga ( my mountain ).

Ko Tamaki toku awa  ( my river ).

Ko Nga Puhi toku iwi ( my tribe ).

Ko Ruapotaka toku marae ( my marae ).

No New Zealand ahau ( where I am from ).

Kei Pakuranga kainga inaianei ( where I live ).

Ko Tamaki Primary School toku kura ( my school ).

Ko Bell - Morrison toku whanau ( my family name, my last name ).

Ko Terry toku matua ( my dad ).

Ko Bonnie toku whaea ( my mum ).

Ko Perenara Cameron Bell - Morrison toku ingoa ( my name ).

This is my pepeha this is what I would say to introduce my self where ever I go or when I go onto a marae. My tribe is Nga Puhi, My river is the tamaki river, My mountain is mount wellington and I now live in pakuranga. My task was to record my self saying my pepeha click the link to watch and listen to me reading my pepeha and to see how I have written it out. 

About me

Today we have made our last transaction in our technology group, for the remainder of the year me and  my group will be doing ... GRAPHICS !! To start out they day our teacher Mrs Ferguson introduced herself to the younger student that didn't go to technology. We had to make a google drawing to show and tell our graphics teacher Mrs Ferguson a little bit about yourself and to show her some of the things that we like such as our favorite games, sports and food etc. We also made avatars of ourselves, avatars of what we wanted to look like when we are older or avatars of what we want  to look like. On my google drawing of myself I had a lot of images of things that I like or of people that I look upto. For the people I look upto I put Tupac Shakur and XXXTenTacion, because in their music the both spoke the truth about how they've been feeling and because they talked about what was happening in areas that most people dont know about. For  games and sports I put Basketball and Fortnite because those are the two main things that I am doing in my free time. I put Burger King because I like to eat at burger king and I like the food that they have there, and for the things that I like was cherry blossom trees and  chocolate because they both look nice and one is very nice.

Reading task - Hemoana and Fenu

For the last two days my class has been learning about Myths from the Pacific. Each person was put into groups with a culture that they had to read a myth about. I was first in the New Zealand group but we didn't have a myth to read about so my teacher Mrs Aireen but me and the rest of the people in the New Zealand group into the Tuvaluan group. Our myth was about two different islands that were called NukuNonu Atoll and Fakaofo, in the story both of the islands had a female spirit the spirit names where Hemoana and Fenu. In the story Fenu came of to the island that Hemoana lives on and tried to steal some of the freshwater that Hemoana had with a clam shell, after Fenu scoops up some of the water Hemoana jumps out from inside of a rock and chases down Fenu until she stops when she stops Hemoana smacks the clam shell out of Fenu's hand. Thinking that smacking the water out of her hand would do nothing it makes water go everywhere and makes streams with fresh water, while Hemoana is running away she taking one of the trees on the island and replanted it back on her island.

My three tasks where to analyze, summarize what the myth was about, evaluate, what I thought about the myth and create, my create task was to make a billboard poster to show where the pandanus tree came from. For my evaluate task I talked about what I thought about the myth, something that I would change and my analyze task and what I would rate this myth on a scale from one to ten. I thought something that could've happened differently was Fenus could've asked for some of the water instead of trying to steal the water. If this was to relate to me it would be between me and one of my siblings. I think that it would be between both of us because we would want what the other has. If that happens I would swap items with my siblings so that there is no fighting and we know where our items are.