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Karapu Lit:  MeRG
Douglasville, Georgia

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HE NAU MAI NUI ki te rōpū pānui tāne tuatahi a LitLovers — ko te tumanako, koinei te tuatahi o ngā pukapuka maha. I tēnei tau tuatahi o tō rātou oranga, kua tangohia e te rōpū ētahi pukapuka tino pai, he pakiwaitara (āe, ko Venus—Mars e pānuihia ngā kōrero pakiwaitara) me ngā kōrero pono.


Ā, tō ingoa? He ahua hangarau matatau te tangi.
Aroha mai, kāore rawa. Ko tōna tikanga he "Rōpū Pānui Tāne." I karo mātou i te kī he "karapu pukapuka" nā te mea he tikanga wahine tō taua kupu, ā, i hiahia ētahi o mātou kia karohia. [Āe, haere mai rā e tama! —Kaiwhakatika.]

Tokohia kei roto i tō rōpū...ko te tokorima kei roto i te whakaahua?
Kāo, he tokomaha ake ā mātou—i tēnei wā, tata ki te 10 ngā mema—engari kāore e taea e te katoa te tae mai ki ia hui.

Kōrero mai ki a mātou me pēhea koe i tīmata ai.
I puta tuatahi te whakaaro i a māua e kōrero tahi ana mō ngā pukapuka. I whakatau māua tera pea ētahi atu tāne e hiahia ana ki te whai wāhi mai.

I te mea e whakatairanga ana tō mātou hāhi i te ariā o ngā "Rohe Taunga"—he wāhi e whai wāhi nui ake ai ngā mema hou, ngā mema tūtata rānei ki te whanaungatanga o te hāhi—te āhua nei he wāhi tino pai.

I te marama o Oketopa 2009 i tono mātou i ngā mema pea, ā, i te marama o Tīhema i tū ai tā mātou hui tuatahi. Ehara i te mea nō tō mātou hāhi katoa ō mātou mema—inaa, e hiahia ana mātou kia tuwhera ki ngā tāne o waho o te hāhi e hiahia ana ki te whakauru mai ki a mātou.

Kei hea ngā hui—ā, he pēhea te hanganga o aua hui?
Ka tūtaki mātou i tētahi kāinga rerekē i ia marama, ā, ka tīmata mātou me tētahi wā whakawhanaungatanga. Ka mahi mātou i ētahi kai māmā—he kai mātotoru, he pia, he waina me ngā inu ngāwari—kātahi ka noho mātou ki tā mātou hui e tū ana i te 7:30 pm ki te 9:30 pm.

Nā, he aha tāu i pānui ai?
He rerekē te rārangi—ko ngā kaupapa e aro ana ki te kāwanatanga, te pakanga, te haereere, te taiao:

Kamupene Aytch - Pakanga Ā-Iwi (Watkins)
Rewera i te Tāone Mā
He rawaka te whenua
Te Herekore i te Waenganui Pō - Te mana motuhake o Īnia (Collins me Lapierre)
Nga Ota Whakamutunga
Aroha me te Mahi - Hoia mauhere o Whitināmu (Purcell)
Kakaho i Ruia e te Hau
Te Ara ki te Pononga - Te Kāwanatanga me te herekoretanga (Hayek)
Te Huarahi
He Whakaaro o te Ao
Hīkoi i roto i te Ngāhere

He pukapuka pakiwaitara te nuinga o ā koutou taitara. He pai ki ngā tāne te karo i ngā pakiwaitara—arā, ngā pukapuka e pā ana ki ngā whanaungatanga?
Ahakoa miharo (kāore rānei), he tino whakamīharo ki ngā tāne ngā kiripuaki me ngā whanaungatanga. He rawaka te whenua, Te Huarahi, a Nga Ota Whakamutunga He whakaata ēnei o te ao tūturu, ā, he nui te whai kiko me te pono o ngā kōrero.
[Pai rawa atu. Kāore e taea e au te kī pai ake. Ngā mihi. —Kaiwhakatika.]

He aha ngā mea tino pai ki a koe?
Hei rōpū, he uaua ki te tohu ko wai te tino pai—ahakoa ko tā Harry Middleton He rawaka te whenua Tērā pea tētahi. E ai ki te mema a Conrad Beattie kua maha ngā kape i tukuna e ia, ā, kua hoatu hoki e ia ki ngā tāne i waho o tā mātou rōpū. He pukapuka tēnei e pārekareka ana ki ngā tāne i te haurua tuarua o te ao, ā, e kōrero ana mō ngā mea whai hua me ngā mea nui.

He aha ngā pukapuka i ārahi ki ngā kōrero pai?
I tino miharo Te Ara ki te Pononga i hua ake ai ētahi kōrero pai mō te tūranga o te kāwanatanga i te oranga o tētahi iwi. Te Huarahi i arahi hoki i ētahi kōrero pai—ko tētahi o ngā kaupapa ko te horopaki ā-muri-ā-muri o te kōrero.

Me pēhea tāu whiriwhiri i āu pukapuka?
Ka whakamahia e mātou te whakakotahitanga o te hurihanga me te pōti. Ka whakaarohia e ia mema kia toru ngā taitara, ā, ka tukuna atu ēnei taitara ki te katoa i te wiki i mua i te hui me ngā whakamārama poto.

Kātahi ka tūtaki mātou, ā, ko te mahi tuatahi ko te pōti i tētahi o ngā tokotoru. Mā te nuinga noa ka pōti. Ka tīpakohia e mātou te taitara e rua marama i mua i te wā kia whai wāhi ai te katoa ki te hoko i te pukapuka me te pānui.

Hei whakamutunga, he mahi anō kei waho atu i ā koutou hui o ia rā?
E noho ana mātou i tētahi rohe i nui ai ngā pakanga o te Pakanga Tūmatanui, nō reira i muri i te pānui i Kamupene Aytch, he pukapuka whakamahara mō te Pakanga Tūturu, i whakatau mātou ki te whakarite i tētahi haerenga ki Pickett's Mill, he iti iho i te 30 meneti te tawhiti. Ko tētahi o ō mātou mema he tangata e aroha ana ki te Pakanga Tūturu, ā, kua tūao ia ki te ārahi i a mātou ki te tirotiro hohonu i te papa pakanga.

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