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Karapu Lit:  WAINA
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KI TE WHAKAARO KOE he pai ki tēnei karapu te waina, he tika tāu—koinei te ingoa. Engari e ai ki a Romeo ki a Juliet, "He aha te ingoa?" He wahine nō te waina, he pono. Engari he rite anō hoki rātou ki Wtohu In Nareere Ete ngākau



E toru ngā kawanatanga e noho ana ōu mema?
Ko te Ope Taua o Amerika te hononga i a tātou. Ko te nuinga o tātou (o ā tātou hoa rangatira rānei) kua reti, ā, ko ētahi kua neke. Nō reira, ina tū ngā hui a ngā mema e noho ana i North Carolina, i Maryland rānei, ka haere mātou mai i Virginia ki a rātou...ā muri iho, ka hoki mai rātou ki a mātou. Mena kāore e taea e te mema te tae atu ki te hui, ka taea e ia te waea mai, te īmēra mai rānei i ngā kōrero.

Tō ingoa—"Ngā Wahine i te Uho Tūturu"—he aha te tikanga o tēnei ingoa?
Ko tōna tikanga he wāhine nō ngā momo āhua katoa o te ao. He wāhine e noho māia ana i roto i a rātou anō, he wāhine e atawhai ana, e tiaki ana, e whakamarie ana, e aroha ana, e tuku noa ana i a rātou anō.

Āe. Ka inu waina pai tātou katoa i ētahi wā!

Engari ko ō mātou whanaungatanga he tawhiti atu i te awhi o te karāhe waina. Neke atu i te 10 tau mātou e noho hoa ana. Kei roto i te rōpū ngā tuahine, ngā whaea me ngā tamāhine. Nā mātou i whakatipu tahi te nuinga o ā mātou tamariki, ā, kua kite mātou tetahi i tetahi i roto i te marena, te whānautanga tamariki, te aituā me te whakarere. Ka tautoko mātou tetahi i tetahi hei tuahine, hei hoa hoki.

Ehara mātou i te karapu pukapuka anake...he WHĀNAU mātou!

He mihi nui ki te wahinetanga! Kia pēhea te roa o tō noho hei karapu pukapuka?
I tīmata mātou ki te pānui tahi, hei karapu, i te tau 2004. I tēnei wā, tekau mā whā ō mātou mema. Ka tūtaki mātou ki ngā kāinga, ki ngā wharekai...me ngā whare hanga waina.

Ngā whare hanga waina? Te āhua nei he tino ngahau koe. He aha atu āu mahi?
I te tau 2009, i haere mātou ki Las Vegas i te hui nui. Ka tū mātou i ngā Pō Kiriata a ngā Kōtiro, ka haere mātou ki te Hakari Jazz o te Capital i DC, ā, ka moe tahi mātou me ō mātou mema e noho ana i Maryland me North Carolina. I te tau 2010, ka haere mātou ki Bahamas me te Hakari Waina i North Carolina.

Ka haere hoki mātou ki ngā huihuinga whakamihi kaituhi... ā, kua tae mai ētahi kaituhi ki ā mātou huihuinga pukapuka.

He nui āu mahi. He wā tōu ki te pānui pukapuka?
Āe, e pena ana mātou. Ae rawa! Ka tūtaki mātou i ia 5, 6 rānei wiki ki te kōrero mō tētahi pukapuka (engari kāore i te wā hararei hotoke).

Ka whakamahia e koe te tikanga "Pōtae" hei whiriwhiri pukapuka. Me pēhea te mahi?
I ia huihuinga, ka whiriwhiria e te kaihautū he ingoa mai i te pōtae, ā, ko te tangata ka whiriwhiria te kawenga mō te whiriwhiri i te pukapuka e whai ake nei, te wāhi hui me te wā. Ko ia anō te kawenga mō te tuku whakamaumahara.

Nā, kōrero mai ki a mātou tāu i pānui ai.
Anei ētahi o ngā mea i pānuihia e mātou i te tau kua hipa:

Te Rarangi Marena (Yvette Hines)
Komuhumuhu i te pouri (Denise Jefferies)
Te Hurihanga o te Hinengaro, te Tinana me te Wairua (Alfreada Brown-Kelly)
Kia rite ki te Wahine, Kia rite ki te Tangata
Ko wai e aroha ana ki a koe (Meri B. Morrison)
Te Hao Ngaro
Tama a te Atua (Ngā Rere a Lolita)

He tino pai ki a koe ngā mea katoa?
Acheron (Sherrilyn Kenyon)—kī tonu i ngā pūrākau Kariki me te aroha whakahihi.
Komuhumuhu i te pouri—he kōrero pūrākau kohuru me te kakara o te aroha.
Cross (James Patterson)—he kiriata whakahihiri tino kare ā-roto.

Ā, me pēhea rā ngā kōrerorero tino pai?
Ae—Te Shack, Te Hao Ngaro, a Takoto ki te aata (Dr. Robin Smith)

E tautoko ana koe i tētahi rōpū aroha?
Ae, he maha ngā rōpū aroha—Te Kaupapa Hōia Tuahine (mō ngā wāhine e mahi ana i roto i ā tātou ope taua i tāwāhi), Te Whakamōhiotanga mō te Mate Pukupuku o te Uma, te Mate Pukupuku Maha, ngā momo whare/pūtea kakahu me te kai, me ngā kaupapa karahipi.

runga o te wharangi