Term 3: Week 1: Free Writing

First day of Term 3 and we have started our learning with our usual 20 minute Free writing. This week I will be talking about when I went to Miria's House. Hope you enjoy it :)

Miria's House

On the second week of the Holidays, I went to my best friend's House (Miria). I was sitting at home all bored, and she had send a text asking if I wanted to go over, so I asked my mum, her answer was "Wait for your dad to get home!", as a kid that was like the worse answer to get especially when your dad doesn't finish work until 3 and the time is 10:00 am. So I answered Miria's question with that boring answer, and she replied saying "Make sure you text straight away!". So 10 minutes went by and my mum asked, "So what did your dad say?", Me being so confused answered and said 

"What do you mean?" 

She answered, "What did your dad say when you asked to go to Miria's house?"

"I never asked" I replied. So then we were there arguing about me not asking my dad. SO I texted him and he said yes, and off I went. So I packed me some change and had to go and get dropped off at Four Square to be picked up by Olivia, Roxy, Tamarah, and of course Miria. So we left and went home, me not knowing, her family was having a party. I'm not really use to this type of crowd so I was a bit nervous. Hours go by and my nerves are going away, it's now 12:00 am and me and my friends are still awake. It's 3 am and we are finally all falling asleep. Woke up the next day with everyone being tired and warned out. It was a great night, so much fun and laughter. Wasn't my type of crowd but was still fun :)

Raranga Matihiko: Scratch Project

On week 8 of this term (2 weeks ago)we went to Waitangi to do our proper scratch. The easy part of this was making the sprites move, but the challenging part was when we had to make the background, it only was tuff because I really wanted it to be perfect so I took most of my day just trying to get it right. I really have enjoyed this project and also sad because this is the last time I might do this. I really liked my experience...I never finished my scratch but here is what I got done :) Hope you like it :)

Tuna and Takakau

Tuna:

Last week we had an challenge where you go out during the week and find a eel bring it in on either Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Like all challenges there are rules. So the rules for this competition was that it was only suppose to be short fin, gutted, and cleaned. The tuna was not to be looked at...so what they done with the tuna was they smoked up for the parents on Matariki Whanau Day. 

Takakau:

For the takakau we had to be creative and bake the takakau how ever we wanted. The takakau didn't have much rules except for, it had to be brought on the Matariki Whanau Day, it had to be named so that the teacher's knew who it belonged to, and the container it was in had to be named as well.

I sadly didn't apply in these competition but here are some photos of other people in the competition. 

Maromaku Day

Maromaku day is a day when our school and other schools from around the Bay of Islands come together at Maromaku School and have games of Netball and Rugby. I was in the netball team with my other team mates who are Miria, Roxy, Ocean, Tunisia, Payton, Dakota, and Florence. We went as the Year 8 team. Our team had 5 other games (6 including finals) . We thankfully won all of our games and was proudly gone into the finals. To get there we had to verse, Moerewa, Opua, Paihia, Whangaruru, and one team that I forgot the name to. We had to beat all of these groups to get into finals. We thankfully made it in. In the finals we versed Taumarere's 1st team (they had 2 teams), and also won against them to. In the breaks I had the time to go see the other teams from my school and also the teachers.

That day was my last one because College doesn't have any Maromaku day for their school. I will remember this day forever :)

Matariki Day

Last week Thursday was the day some of our parents and grandparents came in for our Matariki Day. For our Matariki day, we had the parents/grandparents come in and see the different types of work that we have done for the past term. On Matariki the parents/grandparents also had the chance to have some of the takakau and tuna that some of the students in our school had made for this occasion (I will talk more about this in a different blog post). After Morning Tea the whole school and the parents had to go across the road because all the syndicates and the kapa haka groups performed for them. The performances schedule went, Junior syndicate, Middle syndicate, Senior Syndicate, Te Mana Tamariki, and last but not least Te Rau Pou Manawa. For these groups some each group either had 3 or 4 items. To end of the day we had a hangi which was prepared but Nga Rau Puawai & Nga Rau Rangatira. It was a really lovely day with the parents, and the food was amazing. 

Big thank you to NRP (Nga Rau Puawai ) and NRR (Nga Rau Rangatira/chiefs) for preparing the hangi :)