Matariki and reflection on the past 12 months

Hey, everyone, My name is Maya Mcintyre, And I'm here today to talk about the stars and background of Matariki. Also, We have been passed on to do a reflection on these past 12 months and what's been happening or what's happened with our Family.

Now before we start I would just like to get a recap and talk more about the topic Matariki. Now Matariki, as we all know, is a cluster of stars that rise upon the month's May and even late June. As different cultures can call Matariki and different names. The Maori call Matariki “ Matariki “ as other cultures call them/the seven stars. As the seven stars are Matariki. The English call them the Pleiades. For the Maori, Matariki is a huge celebration to them as they celebrated as the new year's cycle of death. Most people as you will well know to celebrate New Year on the 1st January as it is a brand new year date. 

The celebration of Matariki was a big celebration that everyone celebrated back in the past decades but it un supposedly stopped in the 1940s. But ever since around the 2000s, Matariki has unexpectedly become popular again. Which I am very happy about because it is a very exciting topic to learn about. 

A really cool activity to do is actually look up at the stars and see if you can find or spot the seven stars but make sure to have a good look at the twinkles in the sky.

Now there is a big background and characters on Matariki. One legend I found was about the clusters of stars and the seven sisters during the visit each star helps Papatūānuku to prepare for the year to come. And getting gifts to her and her family they had to make their food each day and survive. As you may know, these seven sisters are called Maia, Alcyone, Asterope, Celaeno, Taygete, Electra, Merope I found some of this part of the story really interesting.

As you may know, Matariki is 400 - light-years away. The light travel distance can take 365.25 days which is a super-duper long way of traveling and the paste is at least 299, 792 km per second! WHAT ! that is super fast.

Now My family over these past 12 months a lot of amazing things as happened first off - the houses: Now My mum sister and my sister's dad lived in a 2 bedroom house about 2 minutes away from my Dads house it had been dun up but we were ready to put it on the market and it finally!SOLD! After waiting 2 months then we moved into a rental I town. I had a couple of school friends there. It was really awesome. But suddenly a private option came up and we brought a family friend's house with a pool and a spa right in town. How lucky are we?

Gymnastics: in these past 12 months I have done around 10 competitions - 12 for gymnastics around the whole of the south island each one has been a blast and I have succeeded as I got put graded up higher levels every 6 months at least I am very proud of myself for this matter.

The new baby - in December last year My mum announced she was pregnant at the time I was happy and sad but I worked through it and I am very excited now but still a little shocked. At the same time we also found out it was a boy And I did not like the gender reveal. I did happily want another sister but now I can teach her many other special savage talents.

SCHOOL CAPTAIN!!!!!!! - Now as my palms were sweating the whole prize giving as I sat on my chair waiting to find out who the captain of the new event was I was so scared but when they called my name out I was fizzing and I was so proud and happy it was a great feeling and outcome.

Family Holidays - Like me and my family have been on so many family holidays last year we were lucky enough to go to Australia twice the first time was with my mum and my sister we stayed with my mom's best friend and her daughter in Brisbane and had a blast. The second time was with my dad and cousins. We had an amazing time and got to catch up with my nana. We had the most amazing time. 

WELLINGTON CAMP - Yay wellington camp we woke up at 5:00am got to school packed dad's truck with my best friends and had the best time of our lives at wellington camp it was just the best time everrrrrr !!!!!!!!

12th birthday - as I had my birthday in lockdown it was a very different birthday but we pulled through and it was a very extravagant time.

COVID - 19 - this is going to make modern history the impact it has put on the world is amazing and I can't wait for the thing to go back to normal but this is dying downs the carriage and impact it took to move levels own we have down an amazing job NZ