Back, far back, in the mists of time when the world was very young, there lived a intense and furious volcano named Te Maunga, The fiery guardian, She was always a morning bird, Always the angry and bad tempered, And was also the middle child, Everyday Te Maunga silently wishes to herself she wouldn’t have to be the middle or even being ignored. Te Maunga the fe was crushed everyday and wanted to put an end to this, She had enough and just desired to be normal like the others. Te Maunga thought about how her cruel family treated her and it was very hard to accept it. Suddenly her anger grew bigger and bigger, it was like she couldn’t control her emotions anymore, Te Maunga start to rumble and groan, The ground start to shake roughly creating an intense earthquake villagers were screaming, everyone was like cats and dogs running in all directions, Te Maunga start to feel stronger and powerful than ever before.The villagers and the other Maunga were trembling with fear, families trying to evacuate and others just having no idea what’s going on. Te Maunga then had a small feeling in her, It was then Te Maunga started to regret her decisions, She didn’t know what to do, but her only option was to finally stop the chaos, She tried really hard to manage her raging anger, But she couldn’t it was just too strong,
Volcanic ash and fuming rocks started bursting out and onto the villages and towns. Te Maunga then started to listen to the chaotic screaming and watch villagers run around in fear, She then thought of how sad and heartbreaking that was.Te Maunga slowly started to calm down, earthquakes started to become lower, And the villages and towns no longer had chaos, Te Maunga’s parents quickly and calmly ran up to her and apologized “We are truly sorry for what we we’ve caused you and making you feel that you felt like the lonely middle child I could of paid more attention to you” replied Te Maunga’s family with a guilty expression on there face, trying their best to redeem her trust and respect,“ But how can I forgive you after what you caused me?”
“Please Te Maunga, forgive us, just this once, We were just focused on a lot of things and was too busy for you that we couldn’t spend any time with you” Te Maunga stated, Te Maunga thought for a while they were her family so she decided to forgive them This had made Te Maunga’s behaviour and taught her a lesson from now on to learn which sorts of behaviour work well and which don’t, and to improve yourself without regretting your decisions. It was then and now Te Maunga had decided in order to improve herself to the world and make things better she chose to sleep and never wake up again. Thanks to Te Maunga the villagers, other Maunga, and the world had started to improve. Over time the people developed and Te Maunga started to improve. And that is why Te Maunga the fiery Guardian sleeps in peace. Now looking at Te Maunga, as we all now know her as the fiery guardian that had brought peace in our eyes.
For this writing task, we have been learning about Pourqoui stories. Pourqoui stories is like a tale that tells us what or why that happened. For example, Why does kiwi’s have long beaks? Kiwi’s have big long beaks because they wanted to expierience the feeling of smelling lots of different things at once. We made a pourquoi story about why maungarei sleeps, Then got to create a picture by typing up prompts that connect to our pourqoi stories, when we added our prompts it will appear with lots of images. I tried using powerful and understanding words in my prompts because I usually get a image of just a volcano exploding or a normal volcano. Something I found interesting about this was how much fun it was to add prompts to our volcano to make them represent my pourqoui story.