2020 Maori Lingo Week.

Task Description: For today's task we had to watch a video from the slides and write what we've experienced about it. At first I didn't know what to do, so I just watched the video and wrote about half of it. After that, I watched the next video on the next slide and did the same thing, all the videos were different to the others. It was about Art, Maunga, History, Landmarks. 

CREATE TASK - Lesson 8.

CREATE TASK - Lesson 6.

Task Description: for this task we had to complete our create task. before that we had to finish the first one on the slides. after we finished the slides we moved on to this. For our create task we had to write conversations about what color is my hair, but in Maori though. This is how we made our own conversation of what was the color of the hair.

Description Blog

Task Description: For our task we had to describe and write what our taniwha looked like. I had a drawing in mind that I'd drew, also thought that it would be really amazing to draw my own taniwha. I couldn't write a whole bunch of descriptive words because I didn't know what to write about my taniwha. I just wrote what I wrote and drew my taniwha to get this done and over with.

Quality Blog Posts.

Task Description: Today's task we did a task about quality blog posts. the first thing we did was that we took screenshots of each others favourite blog post and put it on the slide, also writing about topics and themes we like to read about. Me and Jacob also highlighted a few important things on the slide about someones blog, after we completed the slide we moved on to the last slide and then finish our quality blog post.

Tongan History.

 The video I watched was about Tongan people wearing Ta’ovala. In the video it shows Tongan people wearing them including their own tupenu and kafa. You're probably wondering what a Kafa is? A Kafa is similar to a rope. It could be hardened and also soft, it is also something that wraps around your waist when you wear a Ta’ovala. Also about other important things in Tonga

You could also see them wearing it to church when you're there. Including your So-te as well. Doesn’t matter if you don’t have a Ta’ovala then just bring whatever you have like your Tupenu. They all wear it to any occasions that are special like a funeral, a dance, anything. When going to dances or Performances they wear Ta’ovala with leaves around their waist, also heaps of coconut oil on themselves.

The reason why they wear coconut oil is because it is a celebration of the symmetry of the human body as well as a mark of ancestral identity. When it comes to funerals, that’s like the saddest thing ever, because it’s one of your elders that passed on, or your family members. They’ll be put in a coffin, before that they clean the person up and get put in the coffin.

When Tongans go to a funeral, they are all dressed in black.

It’s the same, Tupenu, black so-te, and a Ta’ovala, Kafa. Those are the things you bring to a funeral. Another reason I have is that back in the day Tongans would always go overseas to fish and look for them while they go fishing, in their boat. They use the fishing rod or their own home made one to gather all the fish so that they don’t starve, so that they can fill their bodies up to stay energized.