Our Marae Noho

  Marae Noho 

28-06-18
WALT: Write a recount that informs and entertains your reader

Day One

It was a cold drizzly thursday morning when rooms 3, 4 and 5 were powhiri’d in to kohewhata marae to learn about matariki, we got welcomed in by whaea Mary with BARE FEET standing in glacial cold puddles, and our kaumatua was papa vikkitoria.

Straight after our powhiri we went and had a feed and got straight into our groups to learn about matariki, then our year eight’s had to cook our dinner. As we carried on with our day, my group got into our activity which was to find a maori design in the marae. We had to use clay and smash it on a design for about 5 seconds then we would pull it off and the design should be there.

After that we went into make our koauau, then we weaved a headband and finally! we did some tokutoku panel weaving. My favourite activity was weaving the head bands because we got to decorate them with these plastic diamond things which i stuck 5 of them on my face to try and look funny.

Next we had our lunch, then dinner which was the best because we had shepherd's pie, the best cabbage in the world, it was perfectly cooked, had garlic and butter in it which would make you melt, and last but not least, PUDDING, this wasn’t just any odd  pudding, this was THE pudding. It was a tenderly cooked raspberry pie with custard and ice - cream to finish your day. After that i was full and really wanted to have a shower, then go to bed, but it was way too early, it was about 6 o'clock i think.

Although everyone was full, could barely walk and run, we HAD TO DO kapa haka, which was the worst thing to do at this time. So anyways as we finished kapa haka i thought  we might’ve been going to bed going, But No we had to watch this video about the stars and galaxies.

Then finally the best thing ever happened which was we got to have a shower OMG, That was my favorite thing of that whole day i think, because after that we got to go to bed.