rataś waka

Last Friday, Mr gunn told us a story about rata's waka.rata was a mizrible  person because his father pasted away.when he died he wanted to make shore that he could end this in a good way so he wanted to take his father back to where he really lived.rata was walking and he found a big totara tree.When he sore the totara tree he was like i´ m going to cut down this tree and make a nice big waka to take my father home.so that day he started cutting down the totara it took him have of the day to cut down the tree and the other harf to cut it in to big strips.after he done that he went back to go to sleep so he could do the holowing the next day.in the morning he got out of bed and had breakfest and went back to the tree when he got there he looked at the tree but it was standing staight like he didnt even cut it down and he was like what i cut down the tree yesterday how is it standing up like that so he was like alright i,ll cut it down again so he did it and it took him harf of the day to do that and harf of the day to cut the strips.at night time he didn't go home he stayed there and hid bahind the bushs and looked to see what was going to happen. then he sore all the animals and isects come out and lift up the tree so rata jumped out of the bushs and said are you doing to my tree i'm building a waka to take my dad home one of the creatures sid did you pay your respect before you cut down this tree and he was like ok then iĺl leave the tree so he did and he went home and went to bed.the next mrning he went back to apolijise to the animals and insects when he got there he sore a beautiful waka for his dad and a insect was like well i can see this is very important to you so we made a waka thankyou.