Free Writing: Kapa Haka Wananga

For my free writing this week I will be talking about my wananga that had been help this weekend. Before I get into it I would like to say thank you to all the teachers and paretns that had helped out with breakfast, lunch, and dinner prep. Also to the tutors that gave up their family time this weekend to be with us :) Hope you enjoy this writing :)

Kapa Haka Wananga:

This past weekend I had a Kapa Haka Wananga with my group name Te Rau Pou Manawa. We have been working since Term 2 this year for when we go down to Waikato because we came 3rd place last year. So this wananga was one of the few wananga's we've had this week. Our last wananga was held at Oromahoe Marae. Sometimes we go to local marae's and sometimes we just stay at school. So this wananga was held at our School. It had started at 6pm on Friday night and ended 4pm on Sunday. I was unfortunately unable to attend Friday night for I was at a tangi. 2 of our kaihaka weren't there the whole weekend because they had also attended this wananga. This wananga we were missing a few people but we had to go on. We were missing 4 people. We had to learn this new part to our Whakawatea (Exit), we learned out to haka (haka voice), we had Matua Shane in for some singing, and on Sunday we had did transformations from item to item. This wananga was the best working ethic wananga we've had. Normally it would take us 1 block to get 1 transformation in. This weeked we got 2 in 1 block. It's that mind blowing but it's achievement and achievement is all our tutors want from us. This weekend was so fun, and I hope that we get more great wananga like this. We worked so hard that I lost my voice and I'm not able to speak properly. 

Best wananga ever, keep up the great work everyone we are doing really well :)

Free Writing: Year 7 & 8's Ski Camp

Free Writing

Note: There are thing that I've missed and I couldn't do it all due to the time I was given, I will try and get a more detailed blog post about it. Hope you enjoy it :)

Ski Camp

Last (Week 8) some of the Yer 7 & 8's went to ski camp (me included). We have been having disco's, mufti's, hot lunche's, and many more fundraises to get there. Monday morning we were to be at the school at 7 0'clock so that we could leave the school at 7:30. When we got their we had to wait for the bus to get here, our bus drivers name was Opai ( I don't know how to spell it). He was the best driver ever. Anyways when he got there we had to put all our suit cases or bags that we had into the bottom of the bus, and we had to put all our foods that we had to take down to Ohakune as well. After the bus was packed we had to make sure that everyone was here and jump in our day groups. I was in Group 3 and my adult was Matua Rob. Talking bout the adults, our teacher helpers were, Whaea Dinks, Whaea Nga (my mum), Matua Anthony, Matua Paul, Matua Anaru, and Matua Rob. So everyone jumped into our day groups with our adult, pretty much we had a roll call. Once Roll was all marked we had a karakia then we hit the road straight after. First toilet break was in Welsford. Our first eating stop was at a park just before Auckland. We had our Morning Tea Break. We were just at a public park by the sea. Morning Tea was finish back on the bus we went.  Next stop was in Otra Hola for our lunch Break. We visited an out side museum area where we learnt things about New Zealand, like kiwi slang. After that stop we didn't stop and just went straight to Ohakune where we stayed at a lovely lodge called Station Lodge. A few hours later...

It's now about 4:40 and we have arrived at the Station Lodge first impressions were like " That doesn't look like the picture!". But I was just glad that we made it. So we went into one of the lounges and Whaea Jess told everyone pour sleeping areas. Our next instruction were to get all our gear ready in our rooms for the next day, our first day of skiing. We slept on it and woke up the next day at 6:30 to start getting ready. Everyone was making sure they got all their gears so that we could go straight away but we had to have breakfast first. When we got their everybody's jaws dropped cause we had seen the snow coming down. The second day went pass nice and smoothly. The 4th day we went to the Army Museum to learn things about the army. We also had a lesson about cooking our food as if we were in the army. The next day no body was ready, it was home time, no body wanted to leave and go home. We all jumped on the bus and weren't that happy well I wasn't happy. This is not all of my ski camp experience there is more to it and I will probably do a more detailed blog post on it. 

Free Writing: Term 3: Week 7

Netball Break Up Party:

On Saturday the 31st of August the Year 7 & 8 netball teams had our netball break up party. Our Schedule was 11 am at the Flip Out and the we get to the pools at 12. That didn't work out too well. Arona (Magic's coach) had send a message to Flip Out to tell them we were coming to place at 11 am and save us a spot, but when we arrived they had said that they never got our message and that the place is packed up. We either had to wait till 11 or 11:30.  Of course we waited till 11;30 for more people to leave the place. When waiting we were jut taking pictures, and a man that worked at the place came and told us the rules about the place. Once 11:30 came we straight away went up but then Jess (My coach) said did the man tell you guys to go in ? and well we ran back down and asked him if were able to go in ad he said yes. We went in ad straight I went to jump of a obstacle and you guessed it, my legs fell asleep and I didn't land properly. Next time I jumped off I landed and carried on from there. I tried jumping onto a obstacle and hit my right knee on it and gave myself  big bruise. After that my goal was to be able to land a front flip. I was able to do a front flip, but I wasn't able to land right on my feet. So I spent the last 30 minutes or so at Flip Out to focus on getting the locked in. Just as we were about to leave I cracked it. It's now 1 o'clock and we are on our way to the pools (Wave pools). We were there until 4 and it was my first time and I was so excited. A few times we left the pool and went to the spa. My day was overall I good day and I enjoyed my day. It was the best way to end the year with the 2 teams. ( I will do a separate post for photos)