Kapa Haka Festival
This is our Kapa Haka festival
My family arrived at school and got our kapa haka uniform on, moko and really dark black lipstick on. We got to wait in room 4 until the bell rang for us to go and do the roll. After the long roll we got in two lines and jumped on the bus. I sat by Lila, Aria and Betsy. We finally arrived after a big ride to the showgrounds.
Getting ready at the showgrounds
We did one short practice before we went on stage. I felt so nervous that it was almost our turn. We were waiting by the stage for a long time because the other school was doing their Kapa Haka and they were good.
I'm in the moana syndicate and that is the highest syndite. We ran on the stage. Everybody was clapping for us. Our kaia was Matiria. Our first song was e te ariki.
E te Ariki was our best one we song because we were loud. The next song was the Haka. We were at the back and we sang really loud and that is good. It was the girls turn and that is doing the poi. Then we sang the best song that we are really good at and that is Wainui. Then when we left stage we watched some more schools, then it was the rest of our school. They were so good. At the end of theirs we went to the bottom of the stage and sang our school song.
What I felt like on Kapa Haka
I thought the loud noise from our feet hitting the ground was big bites of hale falling from the sky. My friend and me were so nervous when we were on the stage. We we finished I felt relieved that we were finished. While we were waiting for our Wai and Nui syndicate to be on and we watched babies and they were so cute and funny.
