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Monday, November 19, 2018

Kapa haka regionals

On Saturday we had  regionals in whangarei but we weren't performing till 4:00,first we had breakfast.After we had breakfast we went over the hall and had taumata then we had to run through our items,when we finished we had to wait for our hair to be done then we had to wait for our tamoko. when we finished all of that we went outside to take photo of the hole roopu. Then we had to wait till the bus come,when the bus arrived some people were getting nervous.When we arrived to Kingston stadium people were getting nervous and scared.The roopu had to warm up our throats and do some  breathing.when we went on stage everyone was clapping and cheering.when we walked off the stage everyone was so happy after our performance.When it was prizing giving they were telling us what items came place we placed in all of our items just not the haka,after that they were telling all the groups whos going to nationals,when they said our name all of us were excited.We came third.

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Kapa haka weekend

In the weekend I went back to school to do kapa haka,we went over to our school hall to do taumata then we had to polish our formation because of 2 cripple girls.Then we had to do our formations for our whakaeke first was the girls they keep getting their formations wrong and when it was the boys turn we got it right quick but we had to do go through a few time so we get in our heads.Then we all did together but the girls got it wrong.We were all up till 12:30 because of the girls because they couldn't one formation in the whakawatea well they were doing that boys were having long rest.On Saturday we were split the boys went with tere to polish our actions and formation till lunch,after lunch we had a break.After our break was finished we went back in lines and went through our haka and whakawatea after we did all that we ran through the whakaeke,haka,poi and the whakawatea then we went over the the hall and ran through the poi and the haka when it was 5:00 it was our down time till dinner. After dinner we had desert then we had a long break till went over to the hall,then they four models and they were in our kakahu.Then we all got in our kakahu. After all that we had shower and went to bed.On Sunday we had to run our items because we had a dress rehearsal for the parents.when it was time to perform some people was nervous,when went out some people started crying.

Monday, November 5, 2018

Kapa haka

In the weekend I went back to school a to do kapa haka because we have regional's in another 2 weeks so we've been training really hard for kapa haka so we can make national.The first day we started at 9:00 am and finished at 11:00 pm.On Sunday we woke up at 8:00 to have breakfast after we had breakfast we started kapa haka,first we sang through our songs and polished our poi then we had lunch at 1:00 after we had lunch we had a 50 min break. after we had a break we went through our poi then our whakawatea to see our formation, then we tidy up our formation to our whakawatea. Then the boys went through the haka and after we went through the haka we had to tidy our walk and our run we also did the whakaeke. Then we  showed the girls what we've been doing. After that we did a top drop,when we finished a top drop we went back home we finished about 5:00 pm.