We found out this week that we have speeches next term!! YAY! I'm really excited, but I need to find a good topic like the one I had last year which was 'Is technology affecting face to face communication?' It was a really good topic and I got 2nd place! I haven't thought of a topic so far, but I hope I can think of a good one! Even if it take me the whole holidays just to think of one I know I can write it fast because I'm a pretty good writer.
This week is also Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori week, and each class went on a marae visit. My class went on Wednesday, and it was quite a cool experience. The marae we went to was called Mangatoatoa Marae. When we got there there was a porhiri to welcome us, and then we were split into groups so we could do all the activities set up around the area. The activities were singing, where we learnt a new sing, a maori stick game, where you each had a quite tall stick, and then stood in a circle, until someone called left or right in te reo maori. I forgot how to say it though. Once they called left or right you had to move the way they called and grab onto the next persons stick before it fell. Then there was another game where instructions were called in maori, and you had to run, walk, fly, hop, or whatever they told you to do, to the place they told you to do it. The last person to the place was out. Next was capture the flag/ripper rugby. This was fun, and there was no te reo maori learning about, but I'm not sure why. Then there was the rako stick activty which was definitely one of my favourites. We were taught each movement, and had to do each one four times each. It took us a while to get it all right, but then after that it was really fun. Then we learnt the haka with Raiha, who was a very good teacher. I mostly remembered the haka from last year so it wasn't to hard for me luckily. Then we did a colouring activity where we went around the marae and placed our te reo maori books on one of the carvings, and then ran a crayon lightly over top and it imprinted the pattern into it, it was very cool. Last, but definitely not least we did fry bread, where we copied down the recipe for it and then got to try some, it was so yum. I really enjoyed the visit to the marae I wished I could've gotten the opportunity to do it last year as well when I was a year 7.
Also this week on Thursday I went to Indoor Bowls in Hamilton, and there were heaps of people! There were four teams for the girls from our school, and four teams for the boys, but the boys were on Wednesday. Each team played three games and then a final. Me and my buddy Waiare got the top placing out of our four girls groups, our placing was 16th. Really big thanks to Mrs Grace who tooks us to and from Indoor Bowls, and put up with us crazy girls.
Au Revoir!
See you next term!
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