Kopuwai and the Clever girl- Retold by Brian Potiki

My summary on this story was about. The Maori legend of Kopuwai ( the monster ) and Kaiamio ( the clever girl ).  Kaiamio went out to search for Moa nests but on her way she got distracted and Kopuwai’s two headed dogs grabbed her and took her to Kopuwai’s cave. When she got there Kopuwai made a rope and tied it to Kaiamio’s ankle and made her do all of his chores.

But Kaiamio is very clever and builds a boat and sets herself free. Kopuwai found out and drank the river to try and find her again. Kaiamio told her tribe and they suck revenge they traveled to where Kopuwai was and lit it on fire.

Kapahaka

On Thursday the 31st August the kapahaka group went to Mairehau high school to do a performance in front of 600 other kids and teachers.

First we got on the bus in our kapahaka uniforms to go to Mairehau high school. We had to practice our routine on the bus. We sang takahia paki, tutira mai nga iwi and e toru nga mea it took a while but we got there eventually.

When we arrived it had just started raining we walked into the hall and sat down in our places. There were some amazing performances and we had to pick the ones we liked so if we wanted to do them we could get the lyrics.

It was finally our turn we all walked up to the stage nervously we sat on the stage and waited silently. We had to sing very very loud so that everyone could hear us we pretty much had to yell.We finished and everyone clapped.

Overall it was super awesome morning I would do it again 100%.