Te Tahawai Marae

Te Tahawai Marae

After we got off the bus at the Marae we walked half way until we got to the college. Then we had to go in our positions. We stopped for a few seconds and then started to walk to the steps  and took off our shoes and walked in the Marae. After that we sat down. The boys sat in front and the girls sat at the back. Joshua K said his speech and Joshua J said his too. Then we  went did the hongi. After the hongi we were asked  to go wash our hands and before eating. We ate biscuits and drank water. We wove to make bags out of papers.The colours that we had were black,  red and white. Brenda the lady from the Marae put handles on our bags and gave them to Mrs Cochrane.

We were asked to make a big circle in the whare kai. Then, we started to sing and dance.Then we went to the old lady,  she told us about their ancestors and the people on the wall.There was a horse a jaguar and a ancestor.There were bird people and scary ancestors too.After she told us she gave us bookmarks to take to school.We got to touch the ancestors and draw the patterns on them.After that we had to go and hop on the bus to go to school.