Our Experience to

the 

Whakarongotai Marae

When we got to the Whakarongotai Marae, I looked around the Area and I saw smoke coming out of the next door. That must have been the hangi. The Kapa Haka group welcomed us with some Maori songs like, Purea Nei, Waikanae E and Nga Iwi. The boys did A Utaina, the Haka and Te Waka. In between all of that, there were some speeches by Mr Campbell and a Maori elderly, which Ms Lumsden told us was quite important. When it was Morning Tea, we wet back to school and did a bit of a play, we did some work, it was Lunch Time early and we did another bit of a play and then we went back to the Marae. Over there, there was some new things, like a place for weaving a windmill and a fish. Right now on my desk there is a fish. There was a place where Rm 19 made rulers with paper inside them with pictures for the Marae, attached to string. When you spin it around, it made a funny noise like "wurrrrrrrrrrrr" kind of noise. There was a place to colour in, to make lanterns and a wooden/cardboard waka where you can get a picture.
That was our experience at the Whakarongotai Marae.