In the wake of the Christchurch earthquake, sassy Samoan mother Mareta mentors her fledgling youth choir to the finale o | dG1fcDM5YWZQTFhBTHc
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00:00Mum, please, can you help me warm up?
00:04Okay, breathe.
00:19We need to show that you're at least trying to make your situation better.
00:22Or they're going to take your benefit, you're going to lose your power,
00:24poo your pants and then I have to come clean it up.
00:27It's yuck.
00:30At Francis, our standards are extremely high.
00:33The person we're after needs to be a little bit more like us.
00:37When you walked into the interview, I thought,
00:39now here's someone that can offer my kids something different.
00:43That's what I came to discuss.
00:46I'm starting a school choir.
00:48You want to rub your hands together like this.
00:51You can tell me what choir's about.
00:52Singing?
00:53Yeah.
00:54Pātea, pātea, toto pā.
01:00Okay, that's a work in progress.
01:04If you disrespect the master, you exercise.
01:06Your power.
01:07This is a teaching institution.
01:10Otherwise you'd get the jandal.
01:12With love, of course.
01:14I wanted to tell you guys about a national choir competition called the Big Sing.
01:18I think you should do it.
01:21What is this?
01:22These are a bunch of spoiled rich kids that have everything they could ever want.
01:25You don't know them.
01:27You can't just throw some Sunday school group together and sing kōng pō ia.
01:31You felt that I could give these kids something.
01:34This is that something.
01:36I want you to promise me that you will not stop singing.
01:41Focus on the breaths around you.
01:43The space between us.
01:45It connects us.
01:47To our choir, our family, to our community.
01:52She's now gone.
01:54I see her in every kid that you've ever taught.