Kei te hiahia koe kia haere tonu hei kaiherehere pounamu mō ēnei paerangi? Koinei ko te whakawhanake ake o te kōpūtahi herehere pounamu. Ko ēnei taputapu hira e pai ana ki te whakamahi i a koe ki te kaiherehere pounamu i roto i tō whare. He aha te nui o te waiwai ki te kuhu i ēnei pounamu pai me te ako mō rātou?
Kaore koe hoki e hiahiatia ana kia whai i te mahi kohatu, arā, kia haere ki wāhi āwāhi o te ao hei kite i aua. Nā tēnā ka mōhio ai, ko te kaitohutohu herekore kohatu e whakamahia ana mo ngā kaitohutohu kohatu matatau hoki he whakaaetanga pai nui. Ki te heke mai i te mōhioitanga iti, ka whai koe i te haerenga nui rawa ki te timata i te whakamahi i ngā kohatu me ngā minera. Ko ngā mea katoa kei roto i tēnei kete hei whakamahi i a koe kia tīmata te whakatohutohu kohatu. Ki te kore koe i te tika tonu, ka taea e katoa te mahi nei!
Te Rongoke i waenganui i ngā Pounamu me ngā Kōwhatu Irite Inaianei, i tō kura, ka ako koe i runga i te kete nei i ngā momo kura e rahi ana. Kei roto he kōwhatu matua, he kōwhatu hou, me he pūngao tūturu e āheinga nei ki a koe i te whenua whakapakoko! Ka kite koe i tō koutou whakamā! Kia maumahara ki te wanaunga o te pounamu e kitea nei? I te wā e kawe ana koe i te kōwhaiwhai, ka noho anō he taonga hei tiaki, hei whakaawetia!
Kei te hiahia koe ki ngā kōwhatu me ngā pūngao e noho whakauru nei i a tātou? Ko te kete whakapakoko kōwhatu he tino take mō ngā mokopuna rangiruatanga pēnei koe ki te kite i ngā mea kei roto i te hangarau whenua! He nuinga ngā motu me ngā pūngao e noho nei i raro i ō ringaringa. Ka ako anō koe i te āhua e ai ki te wā e hanga ana i ngā pūngao. Kei roto i tō kete he porohita pai, me etahi whakamāoritanga nui kia whai manaaki i te hangarau whenua i tētahi tauira me te wanaunga! He mea tika tēnā, he mea whakangungu, he mea kimi mātauranga!
Ki te whakamahia ngā kōpūtahi matatini o mātau, ka taea e koe te whai i ngā pounamu ki runga i tō whare anō. Gemreekings nog by die huis! Ka tae atu ia ki ngā mea katoa e hiahiatia ana, pērā i te rākau tahua, te paru me te whenua kuhu hei kuhu i ngā pounamu iti hei whakapakari. Ka taea e koe te whakatau i ia pounamu ki te tūtohu whakakī e noho nei i roto i te kōpūtahi. Ko tā mātau he poaka wanaunga hei whakauru i ia pounamu katoa. Ko tēnei he take mōhio hoki kei te noho tahi, āe he ara hou ki te whai mātauranga i te ao o ngā mete taonga.
Ko te Piano Potato i hokona i ngā whare pukapuka me te kete waea pounamu o Amerika, Ēropi, me Rawa Tawhiti ki te Tonga. Ki te niania o tenei ra, ka kitea e koe i ngā muwhanga puta noa i te ao.
Piano Potato whakamahia ngā whakaeke hua moni me ngā whakaeke wana i roto i ngā huringa kaiwhakaaetanga. Ko te whāinga moni whaimana o Piano Potato me ngā tūtohu horopaki moni ka whakawhiu i ā rātau kaihokohoko me ngā kaiwhakarite ki te pūtake whakahaere i te aha. He kore e mahia ana ngā mahi ki runga i ngā toa hokohoko, ngā wāhi hokohoko, ngā papa hokohoko ā-motu, me ngā whare taonga i Amerika, i te Uepānea, me Tawhiti Rāwhiti. I nāianei, ka kitea i a rātau i roto i ngā kete kuhu mani katoa i te ao.
Ko te tira ka hanga, ka whakatupu, ka whakatupu i te hunga rau atu o ngā mahi hou i ia tau. Ka mahi tata te tira i runga i ngā kaihanga rangahau, i ngā whare wānanga me ngā kete kuhu mani, ko ngā kaihanga rangahau whenua hoki hei hanga i ngā mahi "mātauranga" whaimana.
I whakatūria e Piano Potato Paiaka i te tau 2000, he kotahi rau tau ngā take kuhu mani, kei tēnei wā he tūranga nui i roto i te kāwanatanga paiaka, he pūkenga whakahaere i ngā hononga, me ngā take tuatahitanga whai hua pūmanawa pērā i Scholastic.