Kapa Haka Festival

We have been practising for the kapa haka festival pretty much all year. We finally did it today. I was in the front row so we had to wear these pew pew things and we had to put on some black undies cause that's we wore underneath it. I felt kinda nervous, but also excited.

In the morning we got our mokos on and tried not to smage them up. Then we got on the bus and went to where the festival was. After that we the front row boys and girls got their pew pews on and got in our rows. oce we did that it was time to preform. We got on stage I could see people everywhere and boom we were singing away. It got to the part where the boys moved to the front and did the haka. We did the haka and then we sang a few more songs and got off the stage. 

We waited for the wai and nui to do their performances. It started to hurt though because we were sitting down for ages At the end our hole school sang our school song. Then we got back to see our parents and stuff like that. We got on the bus and started heading back to school.

Kapa Haka

Kapa Haka Festival

First we had to get our Mokos on in the hall at school and the line was massive. Once you got your moko on you had to take a photo. You had to take your t-shirt off before you got a moko on so you don't smudge it. Then you had to get in a bus to go to the festival. I was a 20 min drive to get to the festival.

 While we waited we sang Tu mai ra. Then we headed to this tent which was right behind all the crowd. Then we got to watch all the wai syndicate in our school. After we watched them we went to get ready to go on stage. Then the crowd started cheering as we sang Tu mai ra. I felt happy because the real thing was happening. I was in the 5th row.

The 1st song was Tu mai ra, The 2nd song was Harae mai a paoa, The 3rd song was Ka pioioi. The 4th song was puri anei. the 5th song was utaina, The 6th song was Wainui kura haka. Then it was the haka which was Ka mate. I could see my family but it took awhile for me to spot them but when i did i felt happy. when we were doing the haka one of the actions was to bend but i didn't have too bend down so everyone could see me so it felt like i was in the front row. I was slapping my arms really hard they started to hurt but i kept going. After they were really red but the redness went away after a while.   Once all the boys had done the haka we sang wainui e. 

 Then we started to leave with the song E honore. After we finished we got to take photos with our family. Then after about half an hour we had to get back in our class lines to go on the bus to get back to school. Once we got back to school we got to play for an hour. Then we got to eat for 10 minutes. Once we were finished playing and eating it was about 2:00. Then we did some school work for an hour. Then the bell rang and it was home time finally the massive day ended.