KAPAI: Dear Santa: Please make them care for the planet

DEAR SANTA:
My name is Wai Girl and I was wondering what time on Xmas Eve you will be coming? Dad says if I am not asleep you will go to the house next door instead. So seeing its only 25 more sleeps to Christmas I thought I would give you plenty of time to make my presents.
We have just put up our tree and it is as pretty as. Its got lots of lights and candy canes that I so want to eat right now.
First of all Santa I want a Moxi Girl play set. Not a Bratz pak but Moxi Girl cos Bratz are dumb.
For my bruffar can you get him one of those flash green jackets? Not one of those American baseball bomber jackets but one of those green jackets that Tiger Woods gets when he wins the Masters. Mind you Dad reckons Tiger  could be off his game for a while.
Dad thought all his Christmases had come at once over the weekend with the Black Caps giving the Pakistanis some serious curry and then, by kori,  Cory Jane  really stuffed those French chooks. For my Dad could you please get him one of those flash plates? Not one of those personalised plates that say GUMMY but one of those false teeth plates for his two front teeth. I was going to ask you for a quick stomach staple for Dad but that Roger Rabbit fulla might have
a crack at him like he did at Aunty Tariana last Friday.
Still, I guess Roger and Mary Brooks are just saying what heaps of other Pakeha peoples think about us Maori, and that's fair enough cos at least they got the guts to say it to our faces, eh Santa? That's what Dad reckons.
For my way cool Mum can she have one of those fancy caps please Santa? Not one of those flash as black starter caps from Nevada at Bay Fair, but those black funny shaped ones they get for being clever and graduating from their Wananga weaving classes.
Wot shall we get for my cousin Santa? He's a bit of a handful or haututu as we say in Maori but we love him heaps. How bout we give him a gift so he can fly Mach 1.
Not a Mark One Zephyr Santa with fat feet that can fly real fast, but can you get him into the Air Force so he can be a top gun and fly at the speed of sound?
Mum says if my bruffer and my cousins be good at school and don't tag or get in trouble her and Dad are going to get them a cool combi van in Australia with surfboards on top so they can see and surf the world on real reefs - not manmade ones. Man that would be so cool for them eh Santa.
My sister she got a Zumba set for Xmas and now she dances hard out in front of the tele to lose weight. Sometimes I copy her moves and last Friday I did some of them at our school disco and guess wot - I won a prize for best 5-year-old kanikani. Cool eh? I know my sister would really like tickets to the wicked Matakana Island Natural Breeze Music Festival on January 16, especially because its drug and alcohol-free. So see what you can do eh Santa cos they will sell
like hot hangi stones.
And wot about you Hanakoko (Santa), what do you want for Kirihimete (Christmas)?
Most probably you would want for everybody to be nice to each other and look after the planet, eh? All that other stuff like who said what about who, or where they will or will not build the new Mount hot pools doesn't really matter, eh?
Gee Santa, I so wish they could all be nice to each other like those lovely ladies who run the Waipuna Hospice shops and the Food Bank. Dad reckons they are awhi angels. Do you know what awhi means Santa? It means to cuddle and that's what I want most for Christmas.
Oh yeah, can I ask for one more fing?
If you see Jesus up there and he's not too busy can you ask him to send his bestest awhi angels to Copenhagen next month. Cos if those grown-ups don't grow up and stop poisoning our planet with chemicals Dad reckons we are not going to have any world left to live in, and you will have to take all your presents somewhere else.
And I don't think he means next door, eh Santa?
- Tanx from WaiGirl. tommykapai@gmail.com