El tren terrible

Kotahi tekau mā rima hāora, koina te roa!

Ka tae atu ki te teihana, ka kite atu i ngā wākena hakataka o te tereina ka mōhio ai ki te hē o ngā whakaaro. Ka eke ki runga – auē! He wini pakaru, kāore hoki ētahi e kati rānei, e huaki rānei. Me ngā tini tuhituhinga i runga i ngā pakitara!

Ka noho ki ō māua tūru. Ka tūtaki i tētahi tangata no Chile. Ko te āhua nei, he rerenga no te wā i a Pinochet. Hei hoa kōrerorero mo te haerenga. Ka wehe te tereina, ka tau haere ngā whakaaro. He rawe te tōanga o te rā i waho, i runga i te whenua papatahi o La Pampa.

I te taha o te ara tereina he rori motukā, he rori puehu. Koina, he tika tāu! Nāwai rā ka kī te tereina i te puehu. Ka mārō rawa ngā makawe, ka kī te ihu me ngā taringa. I a Aroha he pepa horoi mākū. Ina murua te kanohi ka paru rawa te pepa.

Me te moe – ¡imposible! Kāore ngā rama i weto, he tāngata hoki e kōrerorero ana mo te pō katoa. He maha hoki ngā tūranga tereina, e heke ai, e eke ai ngā tāngata. Ka tautohetohe mō ngā tūru, ā, me noho tahi māua i te tūru whāiti i matangurunguru ai te tou.

Ko te kīnaki (!), ko te wharepaku. Kāore he heketua, he pūare noa iho, me ngā tapuwae rino e rua e koromeke ai te tangata. Taku waimarie kāore i te hiatiko. Engari, i te mea kāore te kūaha e kati tika, me tū me tētahi waewae kei te kūaha me tērā atu e tae ai te mimi ki te rua kei tawhiti. He mea whakamā te whākī atu, kāore ngā mimi katoa i tae atu ki te pūare, engari ehara au i te tangata tuatahi i hē ai. Ko ngā tohu kei ngā pakitara, me te haunga, me te hōpua kōwhai e teretere ana i te nekehanga o te tereina.

Kotahi anahe te mea pai o te tereina, ko te kawhe, bueno, estamos en Argentina.

Ka tae ohere, ka tae paru, ka tae amuamu ki Buenos Aires. Ka whakawhiti i te tereina ki te subte (metro), ā, ka tae atu ki te teihana Lavalle. Ka piki ki runga, ka puta ki tētahi o ngā tiriti apiapi rawa o Buenos Aires. Me te maha o ngā whare rakurangi! Ka noho ki te parakuihi i te taha o Juan (el amigo chileno). Ka mutu, ka poroporoaki i a Juan (engari kāore i mua i te kōrero hamu – i a Aroha i te wharepaku), ā, ka haere mā raro ki te wāpu Buquebus, me te maleta (tūeke) e takatakataka ana!

Ka hokona ngā tikiti, ka eke i te peripoti, ā, ka whakawhiti atu ki ... Uruguay!