My Marae Recount

      Room 7 and room 5’s Noho Marae Stay

It started on May the 1st at Karoro school.   We began getting into
our car groups. Room 5 and room 7 were getting ready to go on camp. We
were heading to the Arahura Marae. We were going there because we were
learning about our local marae.  I was with Donna in her car. We arrived at the
top of the hill where we could see the marae. We walked around to the gate
where it all started.

Before we started the porwhiri we quickly practiced our waiata. Then the  
women did the karanga. We started walking towards the wharenui. Then I
realised soon I would have to do the hongi and I got very, very nervous.  But once
it was all

over I realised it wasn’t so bad. Then we had our kai. It was so good and the
cake was inā rawa/AMAZING!

After that we went to look for pounamu and  there was a small creek with stones
sticking out of the water. We walked along the top of the wet, slippery stones.
Me and Sapphire ran around everywhere looking for it. But we had no luck. I
started losing hope and got annoyed so instead of walking on top of the rocks
 I just walked on through the water. Sapphire wanted to walk to the other
side so I gave her a piggyback so she didn’t get her feet wet. When I took her to
the other side I kept walking through the water. About two or three steps later I
found some pounamu!

Later on, about 7.00 o’clock we started our evening activities. There was soap
carving, tukutuku panels, technology challenge, indoor games and weaving.
I did the indoor sports games and for our first game we played rats        
Room 7 and room 5’s Noho Marae Stay

It started on May the 1st at Karoro school.   We began getting into our car
groups. Room 5 and room 7 were getting ready to go on camp. We were
heading to the Arahura Marae. We were going there because we were learning
about our local marae.  I was with Donna in her car. We arrived at the top of the
hill where we could see the marae. We walked around to the gate where it all
started.

Before we started the porwhiri we quickly practiced our waiata. Then the  
women did the karanga. We started walking towards the wharenui. Then I
realised soon I would have to do the hongi and I got very, very nervous.   But once it was all

over I realised it wasn’t so bad. Then we had our kai. It was so good and the
cake was inā rawa/AMAZING!

After that we went to look for pounamu and  there was a small creek with
stones sticking out of the water. We walked along the top of the wet, slippery
stones. Me and Sapphire ran around everywhere looking for it. But we had no
luck. I started losing hope and got annoyed so instead of walking on top of the
rocks  I just walked on through the water. Sapphire wanted to walk to the other
side so I gave her a piggyback so she didn’t get her feet wet. When I took her
to the other side I kept walking through the water. About two or three steps later
I found some pounamu!

Later on, about 7.00 o’clock we started our evening activities. There was soap
carving, tukutuku panels, technology challenge, indoor games and weaving.
I did the indoor sports games and for our first game we played rats and rabbits.
It’s a game where we had to chase each other. We also played a game where
you had to get all of your team on and off a towel and into a hula hoop. Later at
8.00 I did a technology challenge. We organised our groups and had to dress
one person up as a taniwha. We lost to the other team by half a point. I was
very disappointed but I still had a lot of fun.

I was really nervous to go to the marae and I almost didn’t want to go but in the
end I really enjoyed it and especially all the activities we did.  My favourite part
of all was looking for pounamu. Overall I just really enjoyed it a lot more than

thought I would.

and rabbits. It’s a game where we had to chase each other. We also played a
game where you had to get all of your team on and off a towel and into a hula
hoop. Later at 8.00 I did a technology challenge. We organised our groups
and had to dress one person up as a taniwha. We lost to the other team by half
a point. I was very disappointed but I still had a lot of fun.

I was really nervous to go to the marae and I almost didn’t want to go but in the
end I really enjoyed it and especially all the activities we did.  
My favourite part of all was looking for pounamu. Overall I just really enjoyed it
a lot more than I

thought I would.