Free Writing: Kapa Haka Nationals

Te Mana Kuratahi:

Last week, it was the big week. The big week that we have been having hard training's for. 6 months of training all came down to 1 week. Wednesday was the day it all came down to. 4:30am in the morning, early, early, early wake up. "Bang, bang, bang" first thing every morning you wake up. After karakia we had to wake and get ready for the big day. Girls were put in the mattress room, boys in the wharekai. "BOYS STAY IN THE WHAREKAI, GIRLS STAY IN THE MATTRESS ROOM!" that was the massive rule. "NO LEAVING YOUR CHAIRS EITHER" 2nd big rule. Getting ready was a hectic time especially for the girls. Get your hair done, get it curled (if needed), tamoko, put dress on. These isn't the order we done them but that was what we had to do. Skip to 8:40 everybody is freaking out. We done a silent run through before we left. 8:50 we left Te Ohaki Marae and went to Claudelands. 45 minutes later...

"We're here!" my nerves are running through my blood taking over, once I got to room 2 (changing room) I couldn't last long and I started balling my eyes out. My tears wouldn't stop crying until I hit the side of the stage. Walking on the stage, seeing all my family, made me less sad and made me more stronger ad confident in my self. 25 minutes...

Wooo it's all done 6 moths came down to 1 week, Wednesday, then to 25 minutes. It was a crazy ride with them. The haka tautoko really got to me and I didn't stop crying for about 20 minutes. 

To end of I will just like to give encouragement, if you love something, push your self so that you can give it all you have. Also never join things for the trip or for friends, you do it for you. 

Te Rau Pou Manawa, I love you  guys to bits and it was the best. Te Rau Pou Manawa Ki Te Hoe!

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)  

Term 3: Week 4 Free Writing: Wananga at Motatau Marae.

Free Writing:
For my free writing this week I will be sharing to you guys about my lovely time at Motatau Marae. Before I get into the details of the trip, I would like to say thank you to, Arona and Matua Alb for helping get to Motatau Marae this weekend, and also to Matua Horrace and Whaea Raiha for being such great Tutors. Whaea Jess for helping us get here. Lastly to all the parents and teachers that gave up their weekend to help in the kitchen. Now for the writing...

This pass weekend my Kapa Haka Group had a wananga. For our Kapa Haka group this wananga was really special because we went to a local marae. We did have a 3 day wananga so the day I will be talking about is Friday night (When we first arrived). So at 5:20 we had to meet up at school just so that we knew who was here and who wasn't. Once we did the roll call, we started loading up the 2 vans and few other cars that decided to help out. My parents helped with carting people out so in our car was, Roxy, Eva, My dad, My mum, and I. So on the way there it was a pretty laughable ride, we were talking Pig Latin, we were singing, and we were talking about some funny and sad times. When we arrived to the Marae we had to wait for everyone to get here so that we could have a powhiri for us to go in. One of the kaikaranga was actually a kaihaka (member) of our roopu, she did it because she was from there. Before we got called on we had a little by Anaru (Carney's dad) about where to stand and what to do when we get in there. A few minutes later... the powhiri is all finish and now we are starting to get ready for a talk that we got from a man about how Motatau Marae links to where our nationals is. I don't remember that much about the stories. I do remember one of the patterns that he explained to us, which the cry of an Albatross. The story is God gave a man a bird and told him when you got of the bird you must thank the bird before you do anything else because, the bird was taking the man to go visit his family after a few years not seeing them. The man got of the bird and the man ran straight to the family gave them a big hug, and then he turned around and said Thank You. The bird cried so that was the story of the pattern. So that was our welcome into Motatau Marae it was such a great experience, and I would like to say Thank to all the people mentioned before for all their support they gave for us for this weekend. 

Term 3: Week 3 Free Writing

For free writing this week I will be talking about me moving my room around. I decided to talk about this because it was a fun and active thing I've done :) Hope you enjoy 

Yesterday (Sunday the 4th of August)was the day we moved my bedroom all around. As a Christian Sunday is normally your resting not to do anything, but me being a nice active person did some active so technically the opposite. So my mum and I first talked about where i want the bed, I had this whole plan, that plan was scrunched up and we just changed the room as we went. The room is pretty small so we were limited on space and where to put things, surprisingly I have a huge square space for me to sit, so that tells you that little areas can be big. Moving along we have to pick up rubbish and things that I don't even remember leaving there. Before I explain my room, I just had to let everyone know that my room use to be my nans room and she still needs to hold all of your clothes in there.

How my room looks:

. The bed is put up against a wall by my window and I'm facing to the other wall

. By bed there is a side table where I have things that i use on a daily bases 

. At the bottom of my bed there is another small drawer where I leave my blankets after I fold them 

. At the bottom left corner of my bed there a some bins of my nans clothes that she needed to put in y room

. By my side table by my head, there is a basket of my aunties clothes.

.Against the wall by the door is a long drawer full of my cousins clothes 

.On top of that draw is 2 small drawers with more of her and my nan's clothes

. Next to the long drawer is another small drawer that has more of my cousins clothes

. On top of that little drawer is my draw

.I forgot that by my nan's bins is my dads guitar 

This list was longer than I thought, but that is a small explanation about my room. This wasn't the best idea for a free writing I just didn't know what to talk about. Hope you enjoyed :)

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 :)

Free Writing: Pobble 365

Bird's Eye view 

Today is the day, we all set free. We set free into the sky and see at a bird's eye view."Jacob, your on the fire duty" Dad demanded
"Jacque, your on safety duty" Dad demanded once again
"What's Safety Duty ?" I questioned
" You have to make sure that everyone is safe and the Air Balloon doesn't break apart" Dad answered
Ok I wondered to my self, I have the biggest job, I have to make sure no one dies or gets injured, and make sure the Air Balloon doesn't break, or else we die. OMG OMG OMG just breath in and I thought to my self, don't panic you only have 3 peoples lives in your hands. "Jacque hop in we're about to leave" Dad shouted
"I'm coming " I replied. Whilst leaving the burden on my shoulders started to lift and I felt more calmer and safe. This isn't so bad after all. "Jacque is the Air Balloon in good shape?" Dad asked
"Yeah, it's all good !" I answered. When I was in the air, I was breath taken at the fact that the world looked much prettier than it is whilst on land. Up in the air, made me wonder, is this how bird's see the world up here? If so I would want to be bird for the rest of my life. It's o beautiful I never wanted to leave. I looked upon the rest of the families that were here and seen how amazed they were as well. "Ok I think it is time for us to land now " Jacob sickly applied,
"What's wrong are you sick?" I asked
"Just a tiny little bit " Jacob replied
"Hold on, give me a few more minutes!" I applied. So we stayed up for another 10 minutes before we had to land or else Jacob would've fainted. "Are we all off?" Dad asked
"Yeah" I answered
I will never forget that moment I saw the world differently.

Free Writing: Friday 17th of May Disco

 My free writing this week will be about the Disco that we had last week (week 3) Disco that we had to fundraiser for our Kapa Haka group Te Rau Pou Manawa to go down to nationals. I've decided to talk about this because, it was the first disco this year and it was my mothers Birthday on the same day. Hope you enjoy :)

Disco 

Last week Friday we had a disco fund raising for our nationals that will happen in November down in Waikato. For the disco, the kaihaka that are in Te Rau Pou Manawa, their parents had to give in some ideas on what we should have at the disco. My parents decided to be in the kitchen and make steak, egg, onion roll (the onion and egg were optional). On the day when I got home my Mum and my Aunty Em were in the kitchen cooking the steak so that when we get to the kitchen all we need to do is keep the steak warm and they would only have to cook the eggs at the hall. The same day as the disco was my Mum's birthday and all she wanted to do was help out in the kitchen. At disco it started of with a little amount of people and the more people started coming in, and then more, an then more, and then even more. There was so much people, that it was so hard to get form one place to the other. The disco was fantastic and fun, I was so glad to send with my friends and have eat a lot of food. To me, at the disco, I was like the mother figure to all my friends, because if they wanted something to eat they asked me to get it for them, or I will make sure that they had something to eat & drink. During the disco I accidentally fell on a little boy... sorry Noah :(. Over all the disco was fun and I had a fantastic time...Thanks Horrace for the BEST MUSIC. I can't wait for our next disco and what it will hold :(

Free Writing: Carpool Karaoke (Assembly)

For my Free Writing this week I will be talking about our Carpool Karaoke that we done for our first Assembly of Term 2. HOPE YOU ENJOY :)

Last week (Week 2 of Term 2) it was my classes Assembly. It was a really rough week cause people were going places for trips and we just had 3 days to get it all sorted. While making our assembly we decided to do a carpool Karaoke because we didn't have enough time to make something else. So on Monday we had to get in a group of 3 and choose our song, so that on Tuesday all we needed to do was get in the car and film. Consuming the little bit of time that we had we all had to be quick and try and just get it in 1 go. In my group was Miria and Roxy and our song was London Thumakda. Miria and I were in the front seats (I was in the drivers seat) and Roxy was in the back. We had to rotate a lot of times just to see who looks better where. We had to be comfortable because there is a part where one of us had to twerk, and the only confident one was Roxy. After 5 shots of filming we finally got our song done. After ours we had the job to help out all the other groups with setting. After all the hard editing and cutting here is the video that our teacher came up...

HOPE YOU ENJOY :)

My Holiday (20 Minutes Free Writing Term 2: Week 1)

My Holiday

To start of the term, our teachers wanted us to get straight back into our 20 minutes Free Writing. If you don't remember what that is, it is when our 2 classes, after Taumata every Monday Morning, we go onto our blogs and write about whatever we want. This week I chose this one part of my Holiday that was exciting. Hope you Enjoy :)

Today I will telling you guys about the day my Mum, Dad, Flo, and I had our training. So the day started of with a normal morning routine, wake up have breakfast, get dressed. When getting dressed my mum told me to get into her togs underneath, and then she texts my aunt to tell Flo to put togs on as well.   After all that my mum decided to ask my aunt (Flo's Mum)if Flo would like to come with us for training, my aunt obviously said yes. So my mum, dad, and I got dressed and headed out to Moerewa to pick up Flo. When we arrived to her house she was all ready to go, she had a jumper on, skins, and a top underneath her jumper. We sat around a little bit for our parents to catch up and talk. After there adult conversation, us 4 (my mum, dad, Flo, and I) went to the netball in Moerewa. We stretched and then got into the hard work... 1 hour later, our training is all done, Flo and I were all wet (sweat) that you would think we had a shower. After training we shot to the pools at the Bay Of Islands College for a swim after our training. We stayed there for only an hour and went to go have sushi for lunch. After Sushi me and Flo went with our Nan and did grocery shopping with her. Our day ended with a nice relax when we got back home for grocery shopping. That was my favourite day in my Holiday. Hope you Enjoyed :)