Marae Noho

On Thursday and Friday the Nui syndicate went to Te Poho o Rawiri Marae to stay the night. First we had to get welcomed into the marae or we were not allowed into the wharenui until we got welcomed into the marae. To get welcomed into the marae you need Tangata whenua (people of the marae) and manuhiri (us). After doing that we had morning tea and went into some fun rotations with the teachers. The first rotation that I went into was string games and rakau with Koka Sophie. We were lucky enough to have some people from the museum come to help us with some rotations. My next rotation was Maori games with a lady from the museum. We did some poi and knucklebones.

After lunch we did some more rotations. My group walked up Titirangi (Kaiti Hill) and it tired me out. after that we had some afternoon tea and then some free time. Dinner was a loud and busy affair but the meal was delicious it was Nachos and almost everyone wanted seconds. After dinner we had ice blocks and apple. Then we had a kapa haka performance and the ukulele groups performed too. Then we went to get into our PJs and get ready for bed, this was a bit hard, as we all had to go get changed in the bathrooms cause we were all sleeping in the wharenui. Getting to sleep was a long process but waking up was easy. We had some free time and then breakfast, I had spaghetti on toast and a milo.

Soon the wai syndicate arrived and we went through the powhiri process but we were the tangata whenua and they were the Manuhiri. Te Waka was our first song and then we did Haramai a Paoa. Morning tea was next and then we did some more rotations with wai. Our first rotation was with Koka Ngaire doing something called honga where you had a partner and you have to put a piece of cabbage tree between you and your partners forehead. Then we had lunch  which was frankfurters and got ready to go back to school. Over all is was a fun time and would like to do it again.