Australia & New Zealand

So when I say Australia do you think of a giant country that is as big as a continent. Well that might seem strange but Australia is called a continent just like Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Australia. They say that people lived on Australia from the start. Here is a story about the people that lived there.

So there was this boy names Rulu. He lived a tribe called the nomad's. There are a lot of nomad tribes, nomads are people that travel to hunt and do not stay in the same place and build a civilization. Once they were near the sea and Rulu went fishing with his fathers. All of the men and women were called fathers and mothers. So Rulu went fishing and he caught a big fish. But then they had to move away from the sea into the inland part of Australia. Then they got hungry and food was scarce. So Rulu and two of the fathers went with him. They wanted to catch a kangaroo. They found a little pool that the kangaroos were but the water was almost all gone. Rulu was really thirsty so he dug underground until he found a water toad. It was wet and cold it had sucked up a lot of water in its body and Rulu squeezed it all out into his own mouth. He had quenched his thirst now. Then they went and they found the kangaroos. They caught one and they brought it back to camp. The Mothers had caught some snakes and they roasted those with the kangaroo. It was a delicious meal and they slept good that night.

That was a story about Australia but here is another one that is about New Zealand.

So there was a boy that was born into a big family with a lot of brothers that were older than him. His name was Maui."Let me go hunting with you" he would plead "No you are to little" his brothers would say."Let me go swimming with you" "No you are too little" "Let me go fishing with you" No you are too little". So one day he was getting tired of this and he jumped up and hid in his brothers canoe. When they came and they went out to fish he popped out of his hiding spot and said "Here I am, now you have to fish with me, give me some bait". "No you are not fishing with us". But he threw his hook into the water anyway. His brothers caught a few little useless fish when all of a sudden he caught some fish that was gigantic. He pulled it up and his brothers started hacking at it with their sharp sticks and soon they started making mountains and hills and started making a new country. It was the second island of new Zealand. They named it after him. Te Ika-a-Maui was the name of the island that Maui made.

Of course that is not how the island was made but it did rise out of the sea because of volcanoes that erupted and the lava touched the water and it solidified and soon it made an island.